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Iraqi TikTok Influencer Om Fahad Shot Dead In Horrifying Baghdad Assassination


Iraqi social media star Om Fahad has been killed. According to local media reports via BBC News, the influencer was shot dead outside her home in Baghdad,

A statement released by Iraq’s interior ministry, also via the BBC, confirmed that a “woman known on social networking sites” was killed by “unknown assailants.” A “specialised work team” has been set up to investigate her death. Per an Iraqi security source who spoke with AFP news agency, the assailant was seemingly pretending to be making a food delivery at the time of the murder. “Iraqi authorities’ detention and conviction of several social media content creators on vague charges that do not justify the restriction of natural rights is extremely concerning.”

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