One aid worker wounded in Aweil

A UN national male staff member was assaulted with metal objects by a group of three men in Aweil town. The assailants had targeted this particular staff member and had asked other civilians to point him out. While the attack does not appear to be the result of the victim being an aid worker, it was ethnically motivated. Other staff members came to his aid and he received medical attention at a clinic for injuries to his face, head, and back. Means of attack recorded as bodily assault. Context individual attack. Source: Aid Worker Security Database, incident 2179.