{"id":30760,"date":"2026-06-14T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/30760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:18:08","slug":"nine-year-old-australian-girl-fatally-shot-by-police-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/30760\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine-year-old Australian girl fatally shot by police in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A nine-year-old Australian girl has been fatally shot by police in Pakistan after officers mistook her family&#8217;s car for that of suspected criminals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2007117\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local media are reporting<\/a> the girl and her family were confronted by armed robbers outside the home of a relative in Chakwal, in the Punjab province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The relative told the media the girl&#8217;s mother was handing over about 500,000 rupees&#8217; ($2,500) worth of jewellery when a police officer returning to the station across the road witnessed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He exchanged fire with the two suspects before they fled on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">As the family began to drive away in their rental car, more police attending the scene opened fire, believing the car belonged to the suspects, according to a police official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The girl and her family were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Her father and brother were later transferred to Benazir Bhutto Hospital in Rawalpindi, where they underwent surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the department was &#8220;providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who was killed and to two Australians injured in Pakistan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We send our deepest condolences to the family\u00a0at this\u00a0difficult time,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A police inquiry is underway, with local officials reportedly promising to hold accountable anyone found responsible for the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nine-year-old Australian girl has been fatally shot by police in Pakistan after officers mistook her family&#8217;s car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28429,10761,28432,12258,22,21,23347,28430,28428,19841,28431,11019,1559],"class_list":["post-30760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-9yo","tag-accident","tag-accidental","tag-armed-robbery","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-hania-ahmed","tag-nine-year-old-girl","tag-pakistan","tag-perth-family","tag-police-shooting","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}