The bomb attack happened on Monday at Kaita village in the north-west near the Cameroonian border, the UN mission, Minusca, said late on Tuesday.

The peacekeepers had been carrying out a patrol when one of their vehicles hit the explosive device, killing the Bangladeshi peacekeepers, it said in statement.

The head of UN peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, sent his condolences to Bangladesh and families of the soldiers killed in the attack.

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No group has been blamed for the attack, but Minusca said it had launched investigations into the incident.

The Central African Republic has been plagued by violence and insecurity since a civil war broke out in 2013.