Journalist ✏️ killed in S Sudan 🇸🇸 fighting ⚔

At least 19 people were killed 💐 in South Sudan 🇸🇸, including an American 🇺🇸 freelance journalist, after fighting ⚔ broke out between government troops and rebel forces in the southern part of the country, rebel leaders and the military said.

Christopher Allen, who worked with various news outlets 📰, including Al Jazeera in the past, was killed in heavy fighting ⚔ in the town of Kaya in Yei River State on Saturday.

"On the ground, about 16 [bodies] have been found around the defensive position of the SPLA including this white man," military spokesman 🔊 Santo Domic Chol told Reuters news agency.

Rebel forces identified 🔍 the man found as Allen, who had been with them for the past week, along with two other journalists.

"We are sad for his family. He came here to tell our story," one rebel fighter, who asked not to be named, said.

UCJ, UNILORIN.