Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

Iraqi societal media influencer Om Fahad has been changeable dormant extracurricular her location successful Baghdad, according to section media reports.

The onslaught happened successful the capital's eastbound Zayne neighbourhood connected Friday.

Iraq's interior ministry confirmed successful a connection that a "woman known connected societal networking sites" had been killed by "unknown assailants".

It added that a "specialised enactment team" had been acceptable up to analyse the circumstances of her death.

Fahad, whose existent sanction is Ghufran Sawadi, was reportedly changeable successful her car by a lone idiosyncratic with a weapon riding a motorbike.

An Iraqi information root told the AFP quality bureau that the attacker appeared to person been pretending to beryllium making a nutrient delivery.

The US-owned Al Hurra quality agency, meanwhile, reported that different pistillate was injured successful the attack.

Fahad became well-known connected TikTok for sharing videos of herself dancing to popular euphony successful form-hugging apparel - earning her tens of thousands of followers.

She was sentenced to six months successful situation past twelvemonth for sharing videos that the tribunal ruled undermined "modesty and nationalist morality".

This followed the motorboat of a authorities committee to show societal media sites for contented it deemed violative and punish those liable for it.

The autarkic Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said astatine the time: "Iraqi authorities' detention and condemnation of respective societal media contented creators connected vague charges that bash not warrant the regularisation of earthy rights is highly concerning."

More recently, a feud betwixt Fahad and chap influencer Dalia Naeem has escalated.

Naeem - who is known arsenic "Iraqi Barbie" owed to her galore integrative country procedures - had been threatening to exposure Fahad's alleged narration with elder Iraqi officials, media reports say.