Italian ambassador given state funeral as DRC gov't, rebels trade accusations

By NP admin | Friday, February 26, 2021
Italian ambassador given state funeral as DRC gov't, rebels trade accusations
Luca Attanasio was shot dead apparently in a botched kidnapping attempt

The state funeral has been held in Rome of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Luca Attanasio, his Italian police bodyguard, Vittorio Iacovacci and a Congolese driver, Mustapha Milambo, were killed on Monday when the UN convoy they were travelling in was ambushed in the volatile east of the DR Congo.

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Italy's new prime minister, Mario Draghi, was among the mourners at the funeral service at Santa Maria Degli Angeli church.

The Congolese government has blamed a Rwandan Hutu rebel group, the FDLR. The rebels have denied the allegation.

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Source: BBC 

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