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Italian attach� and dual others killed in conflict on UN procession in Congo 



GOMA:

Italy’s envoy to a Democratic Republic of Congo and dual other people were killed on Monday in an conflict on a United Nations procession in eastern Congo, Italy’s unfamiliar method and park authorities said.

The procession was pounded during around 10:15 a.m. (0815 GMT) during an attempted kidnap by assailants nearby a city of Kanyamahoro, a few kilometres (miles) north of a informal collateral Goma, a Virunga National Park told Reuters.

The Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, and a troops policeman travelling with him were killed, a Italian unfamiliar method pronounced in a statement.

The park had pronounced progressing that dual people in a procession had been killed and a envoy wounded. The third chairman killed was a driver, tactful sources said.

It was not immediately transparent who was behind a attack. There was no evident explain of responsibility.

“It is with low grief that a Foreign Ministry confirms a genocide currently in Goma of a Italian Ambassador to a Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, and of a policemen from a Carabinieri,” a unfamiliar method matter said.

“The envoy and a infantryman were travelling in a automobile in a procession of MONUSCO, a United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in a Democratic Republic of Congo,” it said.

According to a method website, Attanasio had been Italy’s conduct of goal in Kinshasa given 2017 and was done envoy in 2019.

Dozens of armed groups work in and around Virunga, that lies along Congo’s borders with Rwanda and Uganda. Park rangers have been regularly attacked, including 6 who were killed in an waylay final month.