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Italy ambassador to DR Congo killed

Luca Attanasio (above) died of wounds after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy came under fire near Goma. [AFP]

Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday when a UN convoy came under attack in the troubled east, DRC sources and the government in Rome said.

Luca Attanasio died of wounds after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy came under fire near Goma while he was on a field trip to the region, a senior diplomatic source said in Kinshasa.

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