Dhaka, Dec 13 (PTI) Bangladesh Army on Saturday said six of its personnel in the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan were killed and eight others wounded in a terrorist attack.

The attack occurred in a United Nations base in the Abyei area of Sudan.

“Six of our personnel in the mission were killed and eight others injured when terrorists attacked a UN base in Sudan's Abyei region,” a military spokesman briefly said in Dhaka.

Meanwhile, the defence ministry’s Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) directorate, in an initial statement, said fighting in the area was still underway.

Bangladesh is a major contributor to UN blue helmet missions, and officials suggest that currently over 6,000 personnel from the army, navy, air force and police are deployed, particularly in warring or war-ravaged

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