SRINAGAR: At least six United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh were killed and seven others injured in a drone attack on a UN base in Kadugli, the capital of Sudan’s South Kordofan State on Saturday, Reuters reported. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of carrying out the strike, a claim the RSF has denied, according to Xinhua news agency.

The SAF stated that the drone fired three missiles targeting the UN headquarters and the Bangladesh Battalion, setting a UN storage facility ablaze. All casualties were reportedly members of the Bangladesh Battalion, part of the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei, a disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan, IANS reported.

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