Panic and fear engulfed Aweng County in South Sudan on Friday after a a community leader suddenly collapsed and died.

This was revealed by Authorities in South Sudan’s Twic State.

Isaac Manyang Maring, the commissioner of Aweng County, told Radio Tamazuj on Friday that Chief Bior Madut collapsed and died Tuesday.

“The chief of Maper Payam collapsed when we were attending a normal security meeting in the county headquarters,” he said.

The county official further said Chief Bior was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.” Doctors said Bior died of a heart attack,” he said.