Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, his bodyguard and a driver from the UN World Food Programme were killed on Monday in the east of the country after their convoy was attacked.
The deaths of the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, 43, Italian military policeman Vittorio Iacovacci, 30, and a Congolese driver, whose name has not been released, were confirmed by the Italian government.
“When we heard gunshots we did not know what had happened we went to the scene they had just kidnapped the ambassador, they took him into…
