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Iraqi model Tara Fares murdered as she drove through Baghdad

  • Publish date: Saturday، 29 September 2018
Iraqi model Tara Fares murdered as she drove through Baghdad

An Iraqi model and fashion blogger has been shot dead in a Baghdad street, the latest in a series of high-profile Iraqi women to be murdered.

Iraqi model Tara Fares murdered as she drove through Baghdad

Tara Fares, 22, was one of Iraq’s best known social media figures and more than 2.7 million people followed the Instagram account where she posted photos of herself in daring outfits. She was shot three times at the wheel of her Porsche convertible while driving in central Baghdad on Thursday.

Iraqi model Tara Fares murdered as she drove through Baghdad

Her killers are unknown but many of her fans on social media said they believed she had been targeted by religious fanatics who wanted to stop Iraqi women freely expressing themselves. "Anyone who finds excuses for those who kill a girl just because she had decided to live like most other girls on the planet is an accomplice to her murder," said Ahmad al-Basheer, an Iraqi satirist. Ms Fares seemed to be aware that she was a potential target of extremists. In an Instagram post in July she wrote: “It does not frighten me that there are those who reject the existence of God. What really frightens me is there are those who kill and slaughter to prove the existence of God.

Iraqi model Tara Fares murdered as she drove through Baghdad

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