Italian Ambassador Killed In Attack In N. Kivu
February 22 2021
The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack in the eastern North Kivu province, reports ABC News.
On Monday, Luca Attanasio, a member of the Italian Carabinieri and a driver were killed in an attack on a U.N. peacekeeping convoy in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, the Italian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Attanasio was traveling in a MONUSCO peacekeeping mission convoy on its way to a World Food program site in Rutshuru...
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