Unidentified assailants have killed a Bangladeshi policeman serving with the African Union-UN peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) in Darfur region of Sudan, the mission’s press service said on Sunday.
The peacekeeper whom Bangladesh’s paper The Daily Star identified as Ajgar Ali, 40, was serving at Otash Community Police Camp in Darfur. The paper said he joined Bangladesh Police in 1996 and landed in Sudan for United Nations peacekeeping mission in July this year.
The policeman "lost his life at approximately 3:15 am (0015 GMT), when a gang surrounded and fired at the staff in the mission's community policing centre inside the Otash camp for internally displaced persons," UNAMID said.
Kamrul Ahsan, public relations officer of police headquarters, confirmed the incident.
Another UNAMID policeman was wounded in an attack on their compound in the South Darfur capital Nyala, a UNAMID statement said.
