A 24-year-old Londoner and law school graduate, Mayra Zulfiqar, was found lifeless in a pool of blood in her rented flat in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday. According to the initial post-mortem report, she bled to death after she had been shot in the neck and arm. Based on the marks on her neck, the police also believe that she had been strangled. 

After declining marriage proposals from two men, they threatened to kill her. She even made a police report on the 20th of April asking for protection after accusing a man of abducting her at gunpoint and attempting to sexually assault her. When she managed to escape, he told her that she won’t be able to escape and that he will kill her.

Mayra was a Pakistani with Belgian citizenship who came to Pakistan to attend a family member’s wedding. Since Pakistan was placed on the COVID-19 red list, she decided to just stay in Pakistan to avoid paying £1,750, around RM 10,000, to be quarantined in the UK.

During the time she spent in Pakistan, she made some friends. Unfortunately, two of those friends are the ones who proposed to her and then proceeded to murder her after she rejected them. 

On the night of the 3rd of May, Mayra’s neighbour heard a screen and two gunshots coming from her flat and immediately called the police. When they arrived at the scene, they found her lying in a pool of blood with multiple gunshot wounds with her mobile phone next to her. 

The police in Lahore are currently searching for the two men in the cities of Islamabad and Lahore.