Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. The U.N. World Food Program says at least two other people were killed and several more injured in the attack Monday that killed Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio. A United Nations spokesman tells VOA the other two fatalities were an Italian national and a Congolese WFP driver. The spokesman says the attack targeted two WFP vehicles traveling about 25 kilometers northeast of Goma. This picture released by the Italian Carabinieri Press Office on Feb. 22, 2021, shows late Carabinieri officer Vittorio Iacovacci who was killed in an ambush on Monday, together with the Italian Ambassador to Congo Luca Attanasio.

Source: Ethiopian News February 22, 2021 12:45 UTC