A man has been arrested in Pakistan for shooting a TikTok star de.ad just hours after she posted a video of herself celebrating her 17th birthday
Sana Yousaf, who turned 17 last week and had more than a million followers across her social media accounts, was k!lled at her home in the capital Islamabad on Monday evening.
The 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of her murd3r had spent hours loitering outside her home in the lead up to her de.ath, police said.
‘It was a case of repeated rejections. The boy was trying to reach out to her time and again,’ Islamabad police chief Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi said during a news conference.
‘It was a gruesome and cold-blooded murd3r,’ Rizvi added.
Yousaf had more than 800,000 followers on TikTok, a wildly popular platform in Pakistan, where she posted lip-sync videos, skincare tips, and promotional content for beauty products.
The last video posted on her account was hours before her m8rder, in which she was seen cutting a cake for her birthday.
The comments section of the video was flooded with tributes from fans and fellow TikTok creators, with many reading: ‘Rest in Peace’ and ‘Justice for Sana’.
Influencer Waliya Najib wrote: ‘This doesn’t feel real. You were glowing, just being 17. I’m so sorry this world didn’t protect you. Rest in peace, sweetheart.’
UK-based content creator Kashaf Ali wrote: ‘This is so awful. A literal 17 year old with so much innocence, k!lled for what?’
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