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(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 22 - In the attack on Goma, Congo, the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio and a carabinier who was in the convoy with the diplomat died.

ANSA learns this from qualified sources.

The ambassador and the military were traveling aboard a car in a convoy of MONUSCO, the United Nations stabilization mission 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", says the Foreign Ministry.

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