Luca Attanasio, Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, hardly stood a chance. Yesterday, he, an Italian security official, and their driver died in a hail of gunfire when Hutu rebels attacked a World Food Programme convoy near the eastern Congolese city of Goma, not far from the Rwandan border, in an apparent kidnap attempt. Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi condemned “very strongly this terrorist attack,” while his Interior Minister blamed the murders on “members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).”
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