6 BD peacekeepers posthumously awarded UN highest honour

 
Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers, who lost their lives while serving with the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in Kadugli, Sudan, were posthumously honoured with the prestigious Dag Hammarskjold Medal on Friday.  

 The ceremony marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers was held at UN Headquarters in New York, Foreign ministry has said. 

 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres handed over the medals to Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury during a commemorative ceremony marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers at UN Headquarters in New York. 

 The fallen peacekeepers Corporal Md Masud Rana, Private Md Jahangir Alam, Private Md Sobuj Mia, Private Md Mominul Islam, Private Shamim Reza and Private Santo Mondol were killed in a drone strike on 13 December 2025 while serving under the UN flag, said the Bangladesh Permanent Mission in New York on Saturday.  

 During the commemorative event, the Secretary-General laid a wreath in honour of nearly 4,500 peacekeepers who have lost their lives in the line of duty since 1948 and called for a minute of silence in their memory.