Iraqi security officials have confirmed the shooting Thursday of Iraqi model, Internet celebrity and "Miss Tala·falisi" in the streets of the capital, Baghdad, CNN reported on September 28.
A statement by the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior stated that Falisi was shot and killed on the 27th in the Bagrazala neighbourhood. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior later added in an interview with local television that two gunmen on motorcycles were shooting at Falisi's car.
Tala·falisi is 22 years old. His father is Iraqi and his mother is Lebanese and Christian. She was previously elected "Miss Baghdad" and was also the runner-up in the first Miss Iraq pageant. Although she had lived in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, she occasionally went south to Baghdad.
Rudaw, an English language medium in Iraq's Kurdish region, says she has 2.77 million followers on instram. It had just been named the sixth most popular person on social media in Iraq. The report said that her presence has undoubtedly deeply touched some of the deep-rooted conservative ideas of this traditional society.
In addition to Chufalisi, several well-known women were killed in Iraq. On August 16, Rafeef al-Yaseri, a plastic surgeon known as Baghdad Barbie, was killed in his home; A week later, Rasha al-Hassan, a female owner of a large beauty salon, was found dead in Bagrah's home;
Prime Minister Abadi had asked the Home Office on Friday to investigate the series of cases against prominent women.