22-year-old model and Iraq's most followed online star brutally murdered while driving in Baghdad
A model and Instagram influencer from Iraq was shot dead on Thursday, September 27 when she was at the wheel of her car by unknown gunmen in Baghdad, Iraq. 22-year-old Tara Fares suffered from "three fatal bullet wounds" as she was driving through the capital's central Camp Sarah district in her Porsche convertible.
The sudden death of the social media star has caused a stir on the Internet especially since she had been building up her own personal brand and has almost 3 million followers on the photo-sharing site so far. The killing comes just a day after she was voted one of Iraq's most followed online stars, according to The Independent.
It was reported that the former beauty queen had been taken to the Sheik Zaid hospital in Baghdad at 5:45 am local time. Fares had lived in Erbil which is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and has been reported to very rarely visit Baghdad.
