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The state funerals of Ambassador Luca Attanasio and police officer Vittorio Iacovacci, killed in an attack in DR Congo, are held in Rome. Italy said it has asked the United Nations to launch an investigation into the killing of the 43-year-old ambassador, who died on Monday after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda. IMAGES
The coffin and mourners arrive for the funeral of seven year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, killed in a mass stabbing in Southport, UK, on July 29. Elsie was among three young girls who died in the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, which also left ten people injured, eight of them children, and sparked nationwide anti-immigration riots. IMAGES
Images show the Mohammad Ibn Abd al Wahhab Mosque in Doha, Qatar, where the funeral prayer for Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh will be held. Haniyeh was killed on Wednesday July 31 in a strike on Tehran that Hamas and Iran have blamed on Israel. IMAGES
Hundreds of people in the English town of Southport attend a vigil for the victims of a stabbing attack that killed three children. The mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in northern England also left five children and two adults with critical wounds. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin takes part in a ceremony in tribute to Stephanie Monferme, a police officer who was fatally stabbed in the entrance of the Rambouillet police station, near Paris, in April 2021 by a Tunisian delivery driver, who was subsequently shot dead by a police officer. IMAGES