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Unidentified youths have shot dead 15 people including the region’s commissioner in South Sudan’s Pibor region, Reuters reported Wednesday quoting a senior official said on Wednesday.

According to Abraham Kelang, information minister of Greater Pibor Administrative area, the incident happened on Tuesday when the commissioner of Boma County was returning from a visit to a village in the area.

“The commissioner with his team went to Nyat village and on his return he was ambushed and 15 people were killed including the commissioner,” Kelang told Reuters.

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