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Images of the Italian embassy in Kinshasa after Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed when a UN convoy came under attack in the country's troubled east. IMAGES
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 22 (EFE-EPA), (Camera: EFE).- Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed Monday following an armed attack on a United Nations convoy he was traveling with in the country’s restive east. Italy’s foreign ministry confirmed the death of Ambassador Luca Attanasio and an Italian security guard as a result of the attack near the city of Goma.Both victims were traveling with the UN’s DRC mission, MONUSCO, according to the ministry.FOOTAGE IN THE NATIONAL PARK IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Ambulances arrive at a hospital in Ensenada, Mexico after at least 10 people were killed and nine wounded when gunmen attacked a group of amateur rally drivers in the northern Mexican town. IMAGES
The state funerals of Ambassador Luca Attanasio and police officer Vittorio Iacovacci, killed in an attack in DR Congo, are held in Rome. The envoy died on Monday after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda. Attanasio's Italian bodyguard and a Congolese driver were also killed. IMAGES
Kabul, Oct 27 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Hedayatullah Amid)Three car bombings followed by a gun battle that lasted for about nine hours on an Afghan police base in eastern Khost province left at least five police officers dead and dozens of people wounded on Tuesday, an official said.Provincial governor spokesperson Talib Mangal told EFE that a group of 10 suicide bombers launched the attack on the police complex in the city of Khost around 5.55 am, which ended in the afternoon after security forces killed all the attackers.FOOTAGE OF THE AFTERMATH.