Toe a country in mourning.

Flags at half mast in Rome as a mark of respect following the killings of Ambassador Luca Attanasio, military policemen the Toyota Kavakci and Congolese driver Mustapha Malambo killed in an ambush in Congress eastern North Kivu province.

Congress President Felix C.

So Katie has dispatched an envoy with a personal letter to Italy's president on sent his top diplomatic adviser to assist local investigations in North Kivu.

But in the regional capital Goma, Attanasio friend Dario Tedesco believes it's important to remember this is not just an international tragedy but also a family one.

I don't cry much, really.

I don't cry.

It all even yesterday felt so, so poor.

Yeah, I lost someone.

We love someone and most of all I have to be honest.

I was thinking to his wife and three daughters, that's that's a tragedy, you know It's a tragedy for us to disco.

A vulcanologist in the central African country had dinner with Attanasio on Sunday night.

The next day, his friend Aya Kavakci and Malambo were killed.

Malambo leaves behind four Children, according to a Congolese rights activist.

The victims were part for two vehicle United Nations convoy heading to visit a school feeding program in a town north of Goma, according to Congress presidency.

The Attackers stopped the convoy and killed Malambo.

They were leading passengers away when army and park rangers engaged them in a firefight.

The Attackers shot Iacovou ACI dead.

Attanasio was wounded in the abdomen.

He died several hours later in a U.

N peacekeeping hospital.

Congo's Interior Ministry has blamed a Hutu militia called the Democratic Force for the Liberation of Rwanda, one of 120 armed groups operating in eastern Congo.

But on Tuesday it denied any involvement and condemned the attack as a cowardly assassination, Yeah.