Italy repatriates ambassador and bodyguard killed in Congo

Officials load the bodies of the slain Italian ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo Luca Attanasio and his security Vittorio Iacovacci, who were both killed in an attempted kidnapping. [Reuters]

The bodies of Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and his bodyguard arrived back in Rome on Tuesday aboard a military aircraft, a day after they were shot dead following an ambush in eastern Congo.

 Ambassador Luca Attanasio, 43, and his bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci, 30, were killed while travelling in a United Nations’ World Food Programme convoy to visit a school feeding project. WFP driver Mustapha Milambo was also killed.