PORT SUDAN: Six United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh were killed on Saturday in a drone strike on Sudan’s southern Kordofan region, the UN mission said, with Dhaka sharply condemning the attack.
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) said “six troops were killed and six injured,” including four seriously, when a drone hit their camp in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state.
All the victims are from Bangladesh, it said.
Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus said in a statement that he was “deeply saddened” by the attack, putting the toll at six dead and eight wounded.
He asked the UN to ensure that his country’s personnel were offered “any necessary emergency support.”
