ROME, 24 February, 2021 (TON): On Wednesday, the foreign minister of Italy Luigi Di Maio has asked the United Nations to investigate the ambush killing of its ambassador to DR Congo.

The morning after the bodies of the two Italians returned by military plane to Rome,
Foreign Minister Maio told parliament, “We have formally asked WFP (World Food Programme) and the UN to open an investigation to clarify what happened, the reasons behind the security arrangements used and who was responsible for these decisions,” “We expect, in the briefest possible time, clear and exhaustive answers.”

The Italian envoy Luca Attanasio along with his bodyguard and a Congolese driver were killed on Monday after a World Food Program (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda.

An Italian team of investigators has already been displaced for the probe.

On Monday, the DRC’s interior ministry blamed the killings on the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan Hutu rebel group but it rejected the allegation instead threw the ball in Rwandan Army’s court.