Iraq’s famous online star "Miss Baghdad" was shot dead in the street
2018-09-29 10:00:27 Source: Observer Network
According to a report by CNN on September 28, Iraqi security officials have confirmed that Iraq’s famous model, net red, and Miss Baghdad Tara Fares are on Thursday (27th). The streets of the capital, Bagra, were shot.
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A statement from the Iraqi Interior Ministry said that Falis was shot dead in the Bagra Sara camp neighborhood on the 27th. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior subsequently added an interview with local television stations to add that two gunmen riding motorcycles shot at the car that Faris was riding.
Scene of the murder (Twitter map)
Tara Faris is 22 years old, her father is an Iraqi, her mother is a Lebanese, and a Christian. She was previously elected "Miss Baghdad" and was the runner-up of the first "Miss Iraq" beauty pageant. Although she had long lived in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, she occasionally went south to the capital Baghdad.
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Rudaw, the English-language media in Iraq’s Kurdish region, said she has 2.77 million fans on Insgram. He was previously ranked sixth in the most popular character on Iraqi social media. According to the report, her existence has undoubtedly touched some deep-rooted conservative ideas in this traditional society.
In addition to the recent addition of Falis, many well-known women in Iraq have been killed. On August 16, Rafeef al-Yaseri, a plastic surgeon named Baghdad Barbie, was killed in his home; a week later, Rasha al-Hassan, a female beauty salon owner, was found dead in the town of Bagra;
Prime Minister Abadi has asked the Ministry of the Interior to thoroughly investigate the series of cases targeting well-known women on Friday.
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