London Woman Killed In Pakistan 'By Two Men Who Wanted To Marry Her

Police are hunting at least four suspects after a young London woman was shot and strangled while visiting Pakistan.

Mayra Zulfiqar, 26, was recently threatened with "dire consequences" by two men after she refused their marriage proposals, according to legal documents filed by her family.

She had told relatives she feared for her life after she refused to marry either of the men and had called on an uncle to intercede.

However, the law graduate from Middlesex University, who had moved from the UK around two months ago, was found dead at her apartment in the eastern city of Lahore.

She was found with a bullet wound to her shoulder, but police said she was also thought to have been strangled. A post mortem is underway.

Miss Zulfiqar had been threatened by two friends after they tried to force her into marriage, according to a police complaint filed by her uncle, Mohammad Nazeer.

Mr Nazeer said he had intended to talk to the two men in order to pacify them, only for her then to be killed, Dawn newspaper reported.

The men are accused of breaking into her house in the city's defence housing association neighbourhood with two accomplices in the early hours of Monday morning, May 3, to kill her.

Supt Sayyed Ali said an unidentified caller had alerted police about the murder and she had been found lying in a pool of blood in her room with her mobile phone near her body.