Evacuation of UN Soldiers’ Bodies and Wounded to Abyei Following Drone Attack

The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) on Sunday evacuated the bodies of the deceased and the wounded resulting from an airstrike that targeted UN facilities in Kadugli, South Kordofan, to the Abyei area.

Three drones operated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched on Saturday an attack on a UN camp in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state, resulting in 14 soldiers killed or injured.

Military sources reported that “a UNISFA aircraft landed in Kadugli carrying doctors and paramedics from Ghana to transport seven wounded personnel and six bodies of those killed in the airstrike that targeted the UN headquarters in Kadugli.”

The transfer of the bodies from Kadugli to Abyei was witnessed by the Bangladeshi force commander, a commander from the Sudanese army, and UNISFA officers.

Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi army, in a statement, accused what it described as separatist armed groups of carrying out a drone attack yesterday on the Kadugli logistics base of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Abyei area of Sudan.

The statement added that the attack killed six Bangladeshi peacekeepers assigned to duties at the base and injured eight others.