location: Sirsiri
notes: On 31 August 2016, gunmen (suspected of being SPLM-IO, and coded as such), ambushed police officers in the Jebelain/Jebelen area [coded to Sirsiri, Juba county, Central Equatoria state], killing two police officers on patrol. Officials deployed a very large force along the Juba-Nimule road following the incident, forcing hundreds of people to flee to Juba and Uganda in fear of revenge attacks.
target_text: location: Sirsiri, fatalities: 2