(ANSA) – ROME, FEBRUARY 22 – The Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio and a carabiniere who was in the convoy with the diplomat died in the attack on Goma, Congo. ANSA learns this from qualified sources. The ambassador and the soldier were traveling aboard a car in a MONUSCO convoy, the United Nations organization’s mission for stabilization in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “It is with deep sorrow that the Farnesina confirms the death, today in Goma, of the Ambassador of Italy to the Democratic Republic of Congo Luca Attanasio and of a soldier from the Carabinieri”, the Foreign Ministry said. (HANDLE).
