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Armed group denies killing Italian ambassador in Congo

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epa09030027 United Nations and Congo Armed Forces soldiers secure a road near the scene of an attack on the edge of the Virunga National Park where Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and two others were killed, in Nyiragongo, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, 22 February 2021. According to the Italian Foreign Ministry, the Italian Ambassador to the DR Congo, Luca Attanasio, and a security member were killed in an apparent attack on a UN convoy near Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A statement by the World Food Programme (WFP) said that a WFP driver was also among the dead. EPA-EFE/STR

An armed group in eastern Congo, accused by the government of carrying out an ambush on a United Nations convoy in which Italy’s ambassador and two other people were killed, has denied any involvement in the attack.

Congo’s interior ministry on Monday blamed a Hutu militia called the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which is active near where ambassador Luca Attanasio, 43 and his bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci, 30, were shot.

World Food Programme driver Mustapha Milambo was also killed, local officials said.

The FDLR was founded by senior Rwandan officers and militiamen who the United Nations and others have said helped orchestrate the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. It is one of around 120 armed groups operating in eastern Congo.

“The FDLR declare that they are in no way involved in the attack,” the rebel group said in a statement on Tuesday, condemning what it called a “cowardly assassination”.

via Reuters

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