<p>Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday during a fact-finding mission to the country's troubled east, a senior diplomat told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>The envoy, Luca Attanasio, "died of his wounds" after a convoy of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) came under fire near Goma, the source said in Kinshasa.</p>.<p>Two other people also died in the attack, Major Guillaume Djike, the army's spokesman in North Kivu province told <em>AFP</em>, without identifying the casualties.</p>
<p>Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday during a fact-finding mission to the country's troubled east, a senior diplomat told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>The envoy, Luca Attanasio, "died of his wounds" after a convoy of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) came under fire near Goma, the source said in Kinshasa.</p>.<p>Two other people also died in the attack, Major Guillaume Djike, the army's spokesman in North Kivu province told <em>AFP</em>, without identifying the casualties.</p>