Three trans women shot dead in Pakistan
Another is found burnt and mutilated near a bus stop
18 May 2015, By Darren Wee
Four transgender women have been murdered within weeks of each other in
Pakistan.
Three transgender women were shot dead in a drive-by on the night
of 8 May.
The two motorcycle riders opened fire on a group transgender women who
were standing on the corner of a busy street in Rawalpindi. Billi and
Shah Zaib died at the scene and Saima Shahzadi died the next morning in
hospital. Four others, including two transgender women, were injured.
'The attackers could be those who did not like the presence of
transgenders in the locality,' Almas Bobby, president of the Hijra
Foundation Pakistan told the Dawn news site.
The shootings came less than a week after the burned and multilated
body of another transgender woman was found near a bus stop in
Islamabad. Police said Bijli, 30, was strangled.
The deceased was identified by other transgender women based on her
clothes. She was reported missing 10 days before her body was found.
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