New York, Dhu-AlQa'dah 02, 1437, August 05, 2016, SPA -- The UN peacekeeping mission to South Sudan failed to protect civilians sheltering at a UN camp in the northern town of Malakal where inter-ethnic clashes broke out in February, according to a report by a UN board of inquiry released Friday, dpa reported. About 30 people died and 120 were injured when fighting broke out between youths from the Shilluk and Dinka ethnic groups living at the UN protection of civilians site that was housing 48,000 internally displaced people at the time. The review found that the UN mission failed "at all levels ... to manage the crisis effectively, leading to the negative effects of the incident." The UN mission's failure to respond to the crisis culminated in the "abandoning of sentry posts when armed elements were approaching the berm ... ensuring that civilians would be placed in serious risk in the very location to which they had come for protection," the report concluded. --SPA 00:52 LOCAL TIME 21:52 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w