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               Reporter Shot After Fleeing Unrest in South Sudan

   A reporter who lives in South Sudan has described a harrowing
   experience that took place after violence prompted him to flee into the
   nearby bush.
   Manyang David Mayar told VOA Friday that he wound up being shot as he
   and his family returned to their hometown of Bor on Thursday.
   Mayar says he was accidentally shot by government troops who appeared
   to be drunk.
   "One of the bullets that was shot up, and it landed on my upper arm. It
   passed through my flesh and the bullet went out."
   Mayer received treatment for his wound at a United Nations compound in
   Bor.
   He says his family went into hiding last week after fighting broke out
   in the region.
   Earlier this month, renegade soldiers briefly seized control of Bor,
   the capital of Jonglei state.
   Mayar said thousands of people fled to the bush, where many had to
   survive without basic humanitarian assistance.
   "There were thousands, thousands of women, children and men leaving
   their homes to the bush. On the day they were leaving, some two women
   gave birth to very young babies in the bush, there. And, they were
   accommodated by men, not midwives."
   Mayar says that he returned to a heavily damaged town.
   "We got back. Everything was destroyed. Big buildings were closed. The
   market was looted completely. And now, there is no market completely.
   Maybe you have money - there is no market that you can buy anything
   from."
   Mayar also says he saw bodies in the street.
   "I can still see the bodies of people killed, some civilians and some
   policemen."
   The unrest erupted in South Sudan earlier this month after President
   Salva Kiir accused his former deputy, Riek Machar, of attempting a
   coup.
   Machar said the violence was a result of a purge of Mr. Kiir`s
   political rivals.
   The violence quickly took on ethnic dimensions, with members of
   President Kiir`s Dinka ethnic group fighting the Nuer group to which
   Machar belongs.
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