Seven people killed in Fangak air strikes, hospital destroyed
By William Madouk
At least seven people were killed in Old Fangak air strikes on Saturday by the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces, which also left twenty-five others critically injured.
The strike came just a day after SSPDF issued a warning to the SPLA-IO and the white army to release impounded boats and barges, emphasizing that failure to heed to order would result in aerial and riverine punishment.
In a phone interview with the commissioner of Fangak County, Biel Boutros Biel stated that the military planes targeted the MSF hospital and market center.
“For casualties, there were some people wounded within the hospital – the patients and also some wounded outside the hospital, with some deaths,” he said.
“The wounded are 25 – some in critical conditions, but the majority with minor injuries, then the ones confirmed to have died are four, we have two young men and then we have a lady about 15 years and a child, a small boy of nine months,” he added.
