The Peruvian government has offered its condolences for the “assassination” of an Indonesian diplomat in its capital, Lima, calling the situation “lamentable” and a “heinous act”.

On Tuesday, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing its “deepest condolences and deepest condemnation” for the killing of Zetro Leonardo Purba, 40, a member of Indonesia’s diplomatic corps.

Surveillance footage released by Peruvian police shows Purba bicycling home to his apartment on Monday night, when an unknown assailant, wearing a helmet, approaches him near the building’s entrance and shoots him twice.

After Purba fell from his bike, the gunman shot him a third time before fleeing on a motorcycle driven by a suspected accomplice.

Purba was later declared dead at a Peruvi

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