(supersedes previous)A fourth
suspect has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the hit on
doctor and NGO volunteer Rita Fossaceca in Kenya, police
spokesman Charles Owino told RAI public broadcaster's GR1 radio
Monday.
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 who were traveling with Fossaceca and her
parents, named Monica Zanellato and Paola Lenghini, 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 the northern
Italian city of Novara. She frequently went to Kenya as a
volunteer at For Life humanitarian non-profit, which runs an
orphanage and clinic in Mijomboni.
Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Health Minister Beatrice
Lorenzin, Molise Governor Paolo di Laura Frattura, and the
archbishop of Novara all hailed the victim for her humanitarian
commitment.
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