Cow gets arrested for killing a 12-year-old boy in Rumbek, South Sudan

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that a cow has been arrested for killing a 12-year-old boy in Rumbek, South Sudan. (Read More Here).

African Chart Zone reports: "A cow has been arrested for killing a 12-year-old boy in Rumbek, South Sudan.

"The owner was also arrested.

This is one week after a ram was sentenced to 3 years in prison for headbutting a woman to death."

The bull was walking near a farm in the evening last week when it attacked the child, killing him instantly, police said. The animal had been pulling a plow in Lakes State, in the centre of the East African country.

Major Elijah Mabor, a South Sudanese police spokesman, has confirmed that the animal is "under arrest".

He said: "The bull is now under arrest at a police station in Rumbek Central County.

"The boy was taken to hospital for post-mortem and he was taken home for burial."

The press secretary in the office of the commissioner, Kok Makoi Madeng, when contacted about the matter, said the commissioner ordered the owner of the ram to pay five cows as blood compensation to the family of the deceased.

“This compensation was done based on understanding between parties from both sides before community elders, and in enforcing law and order,” Makoi said. “It is quite clear that no one is above the law, thus anyone committing crimes must face the law.”

Last month, police in Rumbek told Radio Tamazuj that they were holding a ram that knocked a woman to death in the Akuelyol village of Pacong Payam in Rumbek East.

According to reports, 45-year-old Adhieng Chaping was attempting to stand up when she was repeatedly knocked around the ribs by the sheep.