Giovanni Lo Porto

Giovanni Lo Porto (1975/6 – January 14, 2015)[1] was an Italian aid worker. In January 2012, he was abducted by militants while working in the Pakistani city of Multan, along with a German colleague, Bernd Muehlenbeck. Muehlenbeck was later freed inside Afghanistan. Lo Porto was accidentally killed by a US drone strike on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border while being kept hostage, along with American contractor Warren Weinstein and American al Qaeda commander Ahmed Farouq.[2]

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  1. ↑ "Giovanni Lo Porto: Who was the Italian citizen killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan", by Payton Guion, The Independent
  2. ↑ "American Warren Weinstein and Italian Giovanni Lo Porto killed after US operation against al Qaeda on Pakistan, Afghanistan border". News.com.au. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.