Army general who sustained injuries during Bilpam shooting flown to Khartoum as new details emerge

JUBA/KHARTOUM – The Inspector General of South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) General Peter Dor Manjur Gatluak has been flown to the Sudanese capital Khartoum, as Sudans Post exclusively obtains new details about the Bilpam shooting.

On June 8, General Peter Dor was involved in a shooting with his bodyguard at Bilpam. He was shot twice in the shoulder and his hand. His bodyguard sustained injuries in the stomach.

Speaking to Sudans Post this morning, a senior South Sudan diplomat at the country’s embassy in Khartoum said General Dor Manjur has been in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for more than one week and was undergoing treatment for his back and some parts of his body.

“He was brought to Khartoum last week. He has been here for more than a week even and he complain of pain in his back and this is why his back is being treated. He has pain in some parts of his body but he has seen some improvements,” the official who requested not to be named said from Khartoum.

A relative in Juba who requested not to be identified confirmed to Sudans Post that “he was travelled to Khartoum not for treatment, but because he want to go and see the rest of his family which is in Khartoum. He is fine and he did not go to Khartoum for treatment.”

New details

Sudans Post spoke to two senior officers of South Sudan People’s Defense Force at Bilpam who attended the shooting and was told that the army commander jumped to save his life from the AK47-weighing bodyguard from the second floor causing injuries in his back by which he fall.

This, one of the two officers said, is because the bodyguard closed the door when General Peter Dor had gone from his office to a bathroom and General Dor had no choice other than to jump over the glass.

“When the incident occurred, it was the morning hours when he (General Dor) just arrived with his bodyguard at the office. Then when they entered the office, General Dor when to the bathroom and while he was away, the bodyguard closed the door,” the officer said on condition of anonymity.

“After he closed the door, the bodyguard told the General that ‘we are going to deal with each other now’ and it is at that point that he opened fire on General Dor. When General Do pulled his pistol, he wounded him in the stomach but his bullets go finished and because of fears of being finished, be jumped through the glass from second floor,” he added.

The other officer confirmed the authenticity of the information provided in this account and said it was the jumping that caused problem in his back and also in his hands saying the wounds he sustained from the shooting were light.