{"id":735418,"date":"2026-06-14T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735418\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:46:09","slug":"australian-girl-killed-in-pakistan-after-reportedly-being-shot-by-police-australia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735418\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian girl killed in Pakistan after reportedly being shot by police | Australia news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A nine-year-old Australian girl has been killed and two of her family members injured after reportedly being shot by police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pakistan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The family were visiting a relative in Chakwal, in Punjab province, when they were robbed while in their rental car on Wednesday night local time, Pakistani English-language news outlet Dawn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2007117\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two robbers on a motorcycle, including one with a pistol, fled when they were spotted by an officer, and the rental car also drove off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cAs the cops saw the vehicle being driven away immediately, they took it as belonging to the robbers and opened indiscriminate fire on the car,\u201d a police official told local media.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-name=\"standard link button Primary\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" class=\"dcr-svb9qg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The family, from the Perth suburb of Kewdale, was taken to hospital, where the girl was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Her father and older brother were seriously injured, while her mother was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed it was providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who was killed and to two Australians who were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time,\u201d a department spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Pakistani Association of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/western-australia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Australia<\/a> general secretary, Asim Chaudhry, said the incident had affected the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis news is very shocking, especially the death of the nine-year-old,\u201d he told Nine News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThey just came from the pilgrimage [to Mecca].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nine-year-old Australian girl has been killed and two of her family members injured after reportedly being shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-735418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}