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.[6][7] The two-vehicle convoy with seven people was travelling in the Congolese province of North Kivu, from the province's capital of Goma to a WFP school feeding programme in Rutshuru, a town 70 kilometres north of Goma, on a route that would have taken the vehicles through Virunga National Park.[6] The attack occurred at 10:15 a.m. local time near the townships of Kibumba[8] and Kanyamahoro.[9] The WFP and North Kivu governor Carly Nzanzu said the convoy did not have a security escort at the time of the attack.[10][11] In 2023, six men were convicted of murder.
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