Fatal shooting of nine-year-old Hania Ahmed by Punjab Police officer causes furore.<\/p>\n
Published On 15 Jun 202615 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
Pakistani police commandos have fatally shot an Australian girl and severely wounded her father and brother after mistaking them for armed thieves.<\/p>\n
Hania Ahmed, a grade four student from Perth, was killed on Wednesday in the city of Chakwal when Punjab Police Elite Force personnel opened fire, authorities said.<\/p>\n
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Her father, Adeel Ahmed, 39, and 11-year-old brother, Aafan, sustained severe injuries while her mother escaped unhurt.<\/p>\n
Police said the family were trying to flee in their rental car after thieves tried to rob them at gunpoint.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the ensuing chaos, the officer involved mistakenly assessed that the suspects were attempting to flee in the victims\u2019 vehicle and discharged his weapon,\u201d the Punjab Police\u2019s Crime Control Department said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis erroneous decision resulted in the tragic death of 10-year-old Hania and injuries to her father and brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who gave the girl\u2019s age as nine, told journalists that his government \u201cexpects there to be transparency and a proper investigation of these circumstances\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy understanding is that not only has a young girl lost her life but there have been other members of the family injured as well in circumstances which are dire indeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the officer who fired on the family has been remanded in custody while the two robbery suspects were killed in a separate shootout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fatal shooting of nine-year-old Hania Ahmed by Punjab Police officer causes furore. Published On 15 Jun 202615 Jun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1724,77,63,43,44,15299,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-738329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738329","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=738329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}