Fossaceca, 51, was shot dead at the weekend while trying to protect her mother, Michelina, from a machete-wielding assailant in the small village of Mijomboni near Malindi. Her father, Giovanni, was shot in the head and shoulder.
Two Italian nurses Monica Zanellato and Paola Lenghini, who were traveling with Fossaceca and her parents, were also wounded during the attack, which took place in a house they were all staying at.
The Molise-born doctor lived and worked in Novara, a northern Italian city and she frequently went to Kenya as a voluntary worker.
Dr Fossaceca worked as an humanitarian in a non-profit organization, which runs an orphanage and clinic in Mijomboni.
