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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
An Italian air force plane waits at Goma airport to repatriate the bodies of the Italian ambassador and his bodyguard, killed in an attack on a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Congolese driver who has not been identified also died on the field trip. IMAGES
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The state funerals of Ambassador Luca Attanasio and police officer Vittorio Iacovacci, killed in an attack in DR Congo, are held in Rome. Italy said it has asked the United Nations to launch an investigation into the killing of the 43-year-old ambassador, who 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. IMAGES
An Italian military jet arrives at the airport in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to repatriate the bodies of the ambassador and his bodyguard who were killed in an attack on Monday. IMAGES
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