What the records say
- When
- 22 Feb 2021
- Kind
- Assassination
- Deaths
- 3
- Coordinates
- 0.57° S, 28.70° E
- Description
- 2021 murder of an Italian diplomat
Murder of Luca Attanasio
2021 murder of an Italian diplomat
Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was killed on 22 February 2021 along with two other people when a World Food Programme (WFP) delegation travelling on a field visit was attacked by armed individuals.
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