A drone strike hit a UN peacekeeping logistics base in Kadugli, Sudan, killing six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and wounding eight others, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said.

The Sudanese military blamed the attack on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group fighting the army for control of the country, while the RSF has not commented.

Guterres condemned the strike as potentially a war crime and called for accountability and an immediate ceasefire to allow a Sudanese-led political process.

The UN mission in Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan, has been deployed since 2011, The Guardian has reported.

Sudan’s ongoing conflict, sparked by a power struggle in April 2023, has killed over 40,000 people, caused widespread atrocities, and created a severe humanitarian crisis.