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A military plane left eastern Congo for Italy on Tuesday loaded with the bodies of Italy's ambassador and his bodyguard in coffins draped in Italian flags, a day after they were shot dead in an ambush on a United Nations convoy.
The East African
Tuesday February 23 2021
Security forces retrieve bodies on the edge of the Virunga National Park near where Italy s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, his bodyguard and driver, were killed on February 22, 2021. PHOTO | AFP
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The DR Congo government has said that Italian Ambassador to Kinshasa, Luca Attanasio, was killed by Rwandan Hutu rebels.
The Italian envoy was killed on Monday in an ambush near Goma, in the province of North Kivu.
A statement from the Congolese Ministry of Interior and Security said it suspected “elements” of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an exiled Hutu militia, ambushed a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy in Goma, killing the diplomat and two other people.
Rwandan Hutu rebels on Tuesday denied accusations they were behind the killing of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and instead blamed the armies of the DRC and Rwanda,…