A military funeral was held Saturday in Sudan for two Egyptian peacekeepers affiliated to the UN mission killed in the Sudanese western province of Darfur, an Egyptian official said. "An Egyptian military delegation attended the military funeral of the two martyrs," the official said. He added that the funeral was held at the site of the UN peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) in Darfur, where senior officials from the international organization were present. The UN Security Council members on Friday "condemn in the strongest terms" the attacks on United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers in Darfur earlier Friday which killed two Egyptians and seriously injured three others. "The members of the Security Council condemn in the strongest terms the attacks on UNAMID peacekeepers in Darfur on May 7, which resulted in the death of two Egyptian soldiers and left another three seriously wounded," said a statement read out to the press by Lebanese UN Ambassador Nawaf Salam, who holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council for May. The Council members "express their condolences to the families of those killed in the attacks as well as to the government of Egypt," the statement said. The statement encouraged the government of Sudan to "ensure that all the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice". According to a UNAMID statement Friday, a military convoy from UNAMID's Egyptian contingent, with three vehicles and 20 people, was ambushed near Katila village, 85 kilometres south of Edd al Fursan, South Darfur on Friday morning by a group of unidentified armed men who indiscriminately opened fire, without warning, at the peacekeepers. It noted that the attackers fled when the convoy returned fire, adding that the attack left two peacekeepers killed in action and three seriously wounded. The injured soldiers were air-lifted to UNAMID's hospital in Nyala, South Darfur, and were in stable condition, the statement said.
