DR Congo attack kills Italian Ambassador
Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio was travelling north of Goma in a UN convoy
Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed, along with an Italian officer and a Congolese driver, in an attack on a UN convoy north of Goma.
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