New Delhi: Five Indian Army personnel, including an officer, on UN mission were killed in south Sudan’s Jonglei area on Tuesday.The Dispatch News Desk reported.
The Indian peacekeepers were reportedly ambushed by Sudan rebels and were killed when they were escorting an UN envoy. According to the Indian foreign ministry. “Five peacekeepers from India with UNMISS (United Nations Mission in South Sudan) killed in ambush in Jonglei,” foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin wrote on Twitter.
The UN peacekeeping force is based in Pibor county. South Sudan became independent in 2011. However, Jonglei, where the Indians were killed, had seen major ethnic conflict since then.
This is not the first time that an Indian soldier has been attacked in the area. An Indian soldier was shot and wounded in March this year in Jonglei. Arrangements were being made for the bodies of five Indians to be returned home.
