At least 10 people have died and dozens of others injured after a hand grenade exploded in a nightclub in South Sudan’s western town of Yambio, police said on Monday.
James Monday Enoka, a police commissioner in Yambio, said six of the injured were in critical conditions and that they had been evacuated to the capital Juba for medical treatment.
The explosion occurred on Friday around 11 p.m. local time when someone threw “a hand grenade into a club where 500 people were dancing.
He said the death toll had increased to 10 by Monday while dozens of others were injured.
It is alleged that the incident may not be unrelated to the ongoing civil war which has gripped South Sudan since 2013, pitting President Salva Kiir’s military against opponents led by his former Vice President Riek Machar.
