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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
Italians pay hommage to Mario Cerciello Refa, a police officer whose stabbing death sparked a national outcry, while the leaked photo of a blindfolded US suspect raised protests. Cerciello's funeral takes place in his home town near Mount Vesuvius. IMAGES
The coffin of Carène Mezino, a 37-year-old nurse stabbed to death at the end of May in Reims hospital by a mentally disturbed man, is carried in the hearse in front of the Basilica of Saint-Remi in Reims, in the presence of several hundred people, including the Minister of Health, François Braun. IMAGES
In Villiers-le-Bel, on the outskirts of Paris, funeral ceremonies begin for three Kurds, two men and a woman, killed in an allegedly racially motivated shooting in Paris on 23 December. IMAGES
The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
Chicago, Apr 21 (EFE/EPA).- Chicago police sergeant Clifford Martin Sr who died after contracting COVID-19 was laid to rest Tuesday. Martin was a 25 year veteran of the Chicago Police Department and is reportedly the second officer to die from complications of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes the Covid-19 disease. (Camera: TANNEN MAURY). SHOT LIST: THE EXTERIOR OF CALAHAN FUNERAL HOME DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE OF CHICAGO POLICE SERGEANT CLIFFORD MARTIN SR AND HIS CASKET BEING TAKEN FROM AT CALAHAN FUNERAL HOME DURING HIS FUNERAL IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA.
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