London Woman Strangled, Shot to Death in Pakistan After Turning Down Marriage Proposals
On 5/6/21 at 11:21 AM EDT
Police in Lahore, Pakistan, are searching for two men after the fatal shooting of a woman who reportedly refused marriage proposals from each of them.
Mayra Zulfiqar, a 24-year-old Londoner and law school graduate, was found dead in a pool of blood in her rented flat in Lahore on Monday. The young woman had been threatened by two men, according to legal documents cited by the BBC, after she denied marriage proposals from each of them. Punjab Police Superintendent Sidra Khan, citing an initial post-mortem report, told reporters Zulfiqar bled to death after she had been shot in the neck and arm, and police believed she had also been strangled.