A minister in the government of Southern Sudan has been shot dead inside his ministry building in Juba. According to Sudan People's Liberation Army, Co-operatives and Rural Development Minister Jimmy Lemi Milla was killed by his personal driver. The assailant also killed a bodyguard and then shot himself, he added. The incident comes only days after referendum results confirmed that Southern Sudan would become the world's newest independent state on 9 July. The motive of the shooting is not yet clear, but officials in the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement believe it was over a personal matter.