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UN mission in South Sudan reports shooting of displaced people

Xinhua, June 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reported that five internally displaced persons ( IDPs) -- four women and one man -- were shot Saturday evening at a market area adjacent to the protection-of-civilians site in Juba, the capital of the world's youngest country, a UN spokesman told reporters here Monday.

"Four of the wounded people were taken to a clinic inside the site for medical treatment and their conditions are serious," Stephane Dujarric, the UN spokesman, said at a daily news briefing here. "Another two displaced people were injured as they fled the scene of the shooting. UNMISS is investigating the incident."

Meanwhile, UNMISS aircraft have been denied permission to land at the Mission's county support base in the Upper Nile State town of Nassir by armed opposition forces for six consecutive days, he said.

"The amount of supplies for UNMISS personnel stationed at the Nassir base is reaching critically low levels as a result of the inability to operate flights into Nassir," he said.

On May 28, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of UNMISS for a period of six months until Nov. 30 this year.

Alarmed by the worsening political, security and humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, the Security Council expressed serious concern over the more than two million displaced persons in the country, according to the resolution.

UNMISS was established by the council on July 9, 2011, the day when South Sudan became an independent country after decades of civil war between the north and south of Sudan, which ended in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Political in-fighting between South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar started in mid-December 2013 and subsequently turned into a full-fledged conflict.

There have been alarming reports of gross violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law since the escalation of fighting on April 29, including killings, rapes, abduction and the burning and destruction of towns and villages in various counties, according to Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Endite