Italy repatriates envoy killed in DR Congo

By Fiston Mahamba and Hereward Holland
Updated February 24 2021 - 4:59am, first published 4:57am
The coffins of Luca Attanasio and Vittorio Iacovacci were loaded onto a plane for repatriation.
The coffins of Luca Attanasio and Vittorio Iacovacci were loaded onto a plane for repatriation.

A military plane has left the Democratic Republic of Congo for Italy loaded with the bodies of Italy's ambassador and his bodyguard in coffins draped in Italian flags a day after they were shot dead in an ambush on a UN convoy.

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