Surge of casualties in South Sudan as conflict intensifies: ‘It’s heartbreaking’
- Kol is one year and eight months old, but already he has been both shot and orphaned.
- Sleeping beside his grandmother, Nyayuel, at Juba Military Hospital, he is recovering from a bullet wound in his upper right thigh.
- Both his parents were killed in crossfire during fighting in Uror County, part of South Sudan’s Jonglei state.
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- Kol is one year and eight months old, but already he has been both shot and orphaned.
- Sleeping beside his grandmother, Nyayuel, at Juba Military Hospital, he is recovering from a bullet wound in his upper right thigh.
- Both his parents were killed in crossfire during fighting in Uror County, part of South Sudan’s Jonglei state.
Sources: The Independent