A 17-year-old TikTok star in Pakistan has been shot dead by a man who had repeatedly contacted her online, according to police.
Sana Yousaf, who turned 17 last week and had more than 1 million followers across her social media accounts, was killed at her home in the capital Islamabad on Monday evening.
The police have arrested a 22-year-old on suspicion of her murder who spent hours loitering outside her home.
“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 on Tuesday.
“It was a gruesome and cold-blooded murder,” 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. She also had more than half a million followers on Instagram.