SWABI – The unidentified gunmen have shot and injured three transgender persons in Swabi district, the police said.
They said that three transgender people were on the way back home after attending a music function in a car when unknown persons opened fire on their vehicle.
As a result, Salma, Strawberry, and Wafa were injured seriously and were shifted to Mardan Medical Complex.
An FIR, however, has been lodged at Yar Hussain Police Station to further investigate the incident. The transgender persons, including Wafa and Salma, have been moved to Mardan for medical assistance.
This is the second of such attacks to have taken place in 2018. On January 17, a transgender person was shot and injured in Peshawar. Abid, who is also known as Sonia, was fired upon in the Pahandu area of the city and had to be rushed to the hospital in a critical condition.
In a separate incident, a transgender was first kidnapped and then gang-raped by at least nine people Gulbahar neighborhood of Peshawar on January 22.
