Iran Press/ Africa: Some 500 people were dancing at a venue in the western city of Yambio when an attacker threw the missile into the crowd, according to police commissioner James Monday Enoka.
According to channel News Asia, “We found four people dead on (the) spot”, he said.
Enoka said the incident was an “isolated criminal act”, unrelated to South Sudan’s ongoing civil war, which has pitted President Salva Kiir’s military against opponents led by his former Vice President Riek Machar.
“The criminal will face a court of law,” he added.
South Sudan’s five-year civil war has led to the wide availability of grenades and other weapons in the country. In March, five children were killed in the southern state of Imatong when a hand grenade they were playing with exploded.
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South Sudan split from Sudan in 2011, only to be plunged into conflict in December 2013 following a power struggle between President Kiir and former vice president Machar.
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