 She is buried in the Cemetery Flaminio in Rome.On March 20, 1994, she and Miran Hrovatin were killed in an ambush on their jeep in Mogadishu by a seven-man commando unit after returning from Bosaso, while they were in Mogadishu reporting for Rai 3.In 2000, Somali citizen Hashi Omar Hassan was convicted and sentenced to 26 years in prison for the double murder.