It happened on the road linking Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to the Ugandan border, the only paved road of the country.
Sister Mary Abbud, 68, the headmistress of Sacred Heart School in Juba, and Sister Regina Roba who ran a health centre, both belonging to the Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, were killed with three other people on August 16 at 10am in an ambush. Originally from Uganda, both sisters had worked in South Sudan for over ten years.
They were returning to Juba on a Mitsubishi Rosa bus and on a Toyota Noah van with other sisters and faithful after celebrating the centenary of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Loa (Torit Diocese) when unidentified armed men attacked them.
Some of the passengers managed to escape into the nearby bushes after the armed men fired at their vehicles’ windshields and on the fuel tank. The van went up in flames.
The road is the country's most important supply route as the production of even basic foodstuffs is scarce in South …More