Anisur Rahman:
THE Bangladesh Army has said
that six of its personnel serving in the UN peace keeping
mission in Sudan were killed
and eight others were injured
during a terror is tattack.
“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
spokes man said in Dhaka on
Saturday.
The Defence Ministry’sInter
ServicePublic Relations(ISPR)
directorate said in a ininitial
statement that fighting was still
on going in the region,which
borders South Sudan.
South Sudan became an
independent nation in 2011
through a referendum after
decades of civil war with Arab
majority northerners.
After midnight Saturday,the
Bangladesh Army issued a
statement on itsFacebook page
saying the authorities were continuing all-out efforts to provide necessary treatment and
carry out rescue operations for
the injured peace keepers.
“It has been learnt that the
situation in the area is yet to
stabilise and the fight with the
terrorists is continuing,” the
statement said,adding that the
military would share further
detail son the situation in due
course once the information
was available.