Three Italian nuns killed in Burundi

(ANSA) - Rome, September 8 - The foreign ministry in Rome on Monday said that three Italian nuns working as missionaries in Burundi had been killed. The three were killed at their convent in the city of Kamenge. Church sources said initial reports indicated that the killings could be the result of a robbery that went wrong. The news of the incident was first released by the Diocesis of Parma. Two of the dead Xaverian nuns were named as Luci Pulici and Olga Raschietti.