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Four Drown in South Sudan Floodwaters

Deng Ghai Deng

   BOR, SOUTH SUDAN - Police in the Jonglei state capital Bor in South
   Sudan say at least four people including children have drowned in
   floodwaters since Thursday.

   The Jonglei state police commissioner says water levels are neck high
   or about two meters deep in some areas.

   Bor resident Stephen Maliet Diing-Duiwut said his stepmother, Adau Biar
   Atem, 58, drowned Sunday while trying to gather belongings and evacuate
   her flooded home in the Lekyak neighborhood.

   He told VOA's South Sudan in Focus program his stepmother was wading
   through 2-meter-deep water when she drowned.

   "Her home was flooded and there was some luggage that was in the house
   so she went there and she was trying to remove the luggage to a certain
   place. Unfortunately, she fell down and because that place was a bit
   deep, she drowned," said Diing-Duiwut.

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