KHARTOUM, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on the Sudanese government to investigate killing of a peacekeeper of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in attack by unidentified group in Sudan's Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State.
"The members of the Security Council called on the Government of Sudan to swiftly conduct a full investigation into the attack and bring the perpetrators to justice," said the council in a statement distributed by UNAMID Friday.
The UNSC underlined that attacks targeting peacekeepers as "constitute war crimes under international law."
On Thursday UNAMID announced in a statement that one of its peacekeepers, a Nigerian, was killed by an unidentified group in a carjacking incident in Nyala, South Darfur State.
UNAMID was deployed in Darfur in 2008, with about 24,000 personnel, to keep peace in the region which has been suffering from a civil war since 2003.
Since its deployment, peacekeepers in the mission have experienced several attacks by unidentified groups, with more than 53 of them killed.
