The remains of six Bangladeshi U.N. peacekeepers killed in a road accident last month in Ivory Coast arrived home Monday aboard a special U.N. aircraft, a military statement said. Bangladesh Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan received the bodies on behalf of the nation at the capital's Zia International Airport. The Bangladeshi troops were killed on Aug. 25 when a military truck carrying them from the capital, Yamoussoukro, to the city of Abidjan veered off the road and fell into a ditch, the army said. A dozen other soldiers were injured in the accident, which occurred just hours after their arrival in the civil war-hit West African nation. With 3,500 troops, Bangladesh is the largest contributor to the U.N. force in Ivory Coast that patrols front lines dividing a rebel-held north and government-controlled south following a 2002-2003 civil war, the Associated Press reported.
