REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEY YORK -- The United Nations said Friday that two Indian peacekeepers were killed and one badly wounded when attackers stormed a base in South Sudan on Thursday.

Confirmation of the deaths came just ahead of UN Security Council emergency talks on the crisis in South Sudan, where troops loyal to President Salva Kiir are battling soldiers who follow former vice president Riek Machar.

"We can confirm that two UNMISS Indian battalion troops were killed in action," said a statement by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on the attack at Akobo in Jonglei state.

On Thursday, India's UN ambassador had said three peacekeepers were killed.

The UN said a third Indian peacekeeper had been taken to another base at Malakal in Jonglei.

The statement did not mention the more than 30 civilians who had sought refuge in the small Akobo base and were feared to be the target of the ethnic Nuer youths who staged the attack.

"UNMISS condemns in the strongest terms the violence that occurred in Akobo and continues in other parts of the country," said the statement.

"We call on all parties to the crisis to refrain from further violence and seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis," it added.

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