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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
Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was among three people killed on Monday when a UN convoy came under attack in the troubled east, DRC sources and the Italian government said. FRANCE 24's Clément Bonnerot tells us more.
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
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