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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
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
Images show the outside of a United Nations peacekeeping base and a hospital where the body of the Italian ambassador was taken after he was killed in an attack. On a field visit with the World Food Programme (WFP) north of Goma, the ambassador and his convoy were targeted by unidentified armed men. IMAGES
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