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The Italian Ambassador to Congo, Luca attanasio, died along with Vittorio Iacovacci, a soldier of the Carabinieri, on Monday, around 9 Italian, in the town of Kanyamahoro. La Farnesina confirmed it with deep regret. Prime Minister Mario Draghi expressed his deepest condolences.
The 43-year-old ambassador, originally from Limbiate (Monza and Brianza) and married with three daughters, and the 30-year-old carabiniere, from Sonnino (Latina), were traveling aboard a car in a convoy of the Monusco, the mission of the United Nations Stabilization Organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There is also a third victim: the driver., as confirmed by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in a note published by the Quirinale.Attanasio was shot. The attack, carried out with small arms, would have been an attempted kidnapping.
The chancellor Luigi di maio, who returns from Brussels early after learning what happened, expressed immense grief. The circumstances of this brutal attack are not yet known and no effort will be spared to shed light on what happened. Prime Minister Draghi and the Government cling to relatives, colleagues of Farnesina and Carabinieri. The Prime Minister is following developments in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the utmost attention, says the note from Palazzo Chigi.
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Feb 22, 2021 (change Feb 22, 2021 | 1:54 PM)
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