US to pay €1m to family of Italian aid worker killed in drone strike
Source: The Guardian
The Obama administration has agreed to pay €1m to the family of an Italian aid worker who was killed in a US drone strike in 2015.
The agreement marks the first known deal of its kind between the US government and and the family of a victim of a drone strike, following the president’s admission last year that Giovanni Lo Porto and an American named Warren Weinstein had accidentally been killed in a secret counter-terrorism mission.
Lo Porto, 37, and Weinstein, 73, were being held hostage by al-Qaida at the time of their deaths and Lo Porto’s family had been led to believe a month before the strike that he was close to being released.
The payment was first reported by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Daniele Lo Porto, Giovanni’s brother, confirmed the accuracy of the story to the Guardian. Neither the US embassy in Romeor the Italian government would immediately comment.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/16/us-to-pay-1m-euros-family-italian-giovanni-lo-porto-drone-strike
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome
Friday 16 September 2016 10.27 BST
