Italy's envoy to Congo killed in attack on U.N. convoy


  • World
  • Monday, 22 Feb 2021

A general view of the locked entrance to the Level III Indian Field Hospital where the dead body of Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio lies in Goma eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo February 22 2021. REUTERSDjaffar Al-Katany

A general view of the locked entrance to the Level III Indian Field Hospital, where the dead body of Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio lies, in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo February 22, 2021. REUTERS/Djaffar Al-Katany

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Italy's ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday along with his bodyguard and a World Food Programme driver when their convoy was attacked in the east of the country, Italy and the United Nations said.

The assailants stopped the convoy by firing warning shots, killed the Congolese driver and were leading the passengers into the forest when park rangers opened fire, the governor of North Kivu province, Carly Nzanzu Kasivita, told Reuters.

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