Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

According to a CNN story, Iraqi social media celebrity Ghufran Sawadi, also known as Umm Fahad, was shot and dead on Friday night outside her home in Baghdad, the country’s capital.

According to CNN, the assault took place in the Zayouna neighborhood east of Baghdad, and a security camera caught the act.

The video, which has since been circulated on social media, depicts a gunman on a motorcycle attacking and instantly killing the TikTok celebrity by shooting her many times.

CNN said that a police source in Baghdad has confirmed the video’s veracity.

The nation’s interior minister declared on Friday that it was “assembling a specialist task force to investigate the circumstances surrounding the murder of a woman recognized on social media by unidentified attackers.”

Sawadi gained popularity on TikTok by posting videos of herself dancing to mainstream music while wearing skimpy attire.

These movies were previously ruled unsuitable by Iraq’s legal system.

An Iraqi judiciary statement stated that Sawadi was given a six-month prison sentence for “the crime of producing and publishing several films and videos containing obscene and indecent language, violating public decency and morals.”

There have already been fatal attacks on other well-known Iraqi social media figures.

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Most recently, Noor Alsaffar, also popularly known as Noor BM on TikTok, was shot and killed in Baghdad in September 2023, according to an Iraqi security source who spoke to CNN at the time.

With more than 370,000 Instagram and TikTok followers, Alsaffar shared brief videos on beauty, hair, and fashion—often while dancing to music.

After the incident, some people expressed their regret in comments on social media, while others celebrated the shooter and cheered for Alsaffar’s passing.

Alsaffar was killed at a time when Iraq was clamping down on LGBTQ expression and attempting to make it illegal.

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