Remembering Our Dead

TDoR 2025 / 2024 / October / 22 / Salmanu

Salmanu

22 Oct 2024
Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)
Stabbed

Salmanu and her housemate Nazka were killed in their home by armed assailants. A third trans woman named Shawki who also lived there survived the attack.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two men armed with daggers killed two transgender women at their home in conservative northwest Pakistan overnight before fleeing the scene, police said, a sign of increasing violence against trans people in the country.

The killings happened Sunday night in Mardan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police chief Fahim Khan said. He said the motive behind the killings was unclear and officers are still investigating, and the victims had been buried at a local graveyard.

Khan said that two suspects had also been arrested in connection with the killings, but he refused to share any further details. Khan also refused to confirm or deny whether the men were directly involved in the attack.

Three suspects were subsequently arrested and confessed to the attack. Reportedly they were part of an organised criminal gang who targetted trans people.

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