An Israeli national was shot to death Friday in the Angolan capital of Luanda, apparently by local robbers who tried to steal his briefcase as he was leaving a building belonging to a Russian diamond company he was working for.
The Israeli businessman, who also held Russian citizenship, apparently entered the African country using his Russian passport.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, which was informed of the incident Friday night, is arranging to have his body flown to Israel
for burial. Several diamond mines in Angola are being operated by Israeli businessmen.
In January five Israeli diamond merchants were killed
in Namibia when their chartered plane crashed near the capital Windhoek. Police investigators reported that the plane crashed into a local residence roughly five minutes after takeoff.
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