BREAKING: Italian Ambassador to DR Cong killed in attack on UN convoy

The Italian ambassador to Kinshasa was shot dead on Monday in an attack that targeted a convoy of the World Food Program (WFP) during a visit near Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a diplomatic source told AFP.

Ambassador Luca Attanasio “died immediately of his wounds,” a senior diplomatic source in Kinshasa told AFP.

Two other people were also killed during the attack according to the same source.

#BREAKING Italian ambassador killed in attack in eastern DR Congo: diplomat pic.twitter.com/wkdvlYR5Ss

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 22, 2021