Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Grief has swept through two villages in Kurigram and Gaibandha after young Bangladeshi soldiers were killed while serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan.

The fallen soldiers are Private Md Mominul Islam, 38, from North Pandul village in Ulipur upazila, and Private Shanta Mondol, 26, from Chhat Madhai village of Rajarhat upazila, Md Sabuj Mia from Palashbari upazila of Gaibandha.

They were among six Bangladeshi peacekeepers killed in a drone attack carried out by an armed separatist group on a UN logistics base in Kadugli on Saturday afternoon. According to the Bangladesh Army, the attack took place at around 3:40pm local time in Sudan. The other victims hailed from Natore, Rajbari, Kishoreganj an...