Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack on a UN logistics base in Sudan, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The attack on Saturday was carried out in the Abeyi region by the Rapid Support Forces, a rebel militant group battling Sudan’s defence forces, according to the Khartoum government of President Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burha, an Army general.

Guterres condemned the killings, which he said may be war crimes under international law.

“Attacks as the one today in South Kordofan against peacekeepers, are unjustifiable,” he said. “There will need to be accountability.”

The head of UN Peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said eight Bangladeshi peacekeepers, who are among the 512 from that country deployed in Abeyi, were injured.

There were no reports o

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