Pakistani TikTok star and influencer Sana Yousaf has reportedly died. Yousaf was a prominent social media personality in Pakistan and had garnered over a million followers on TikTok and several hundred thousand followers on Instagram.
TikTok star Sana Yousaf’s cause of death explained
17-year-old TikTok star Sana Yousaf was reportedly shot dead at her home in Islamabad, Pakistan, around 5 p.m. local time on June 2, 2025. Her mother and aunt were near her when the incident took place. According to the authorities, Yousaf was killed because she declined a man’s advances (via USA Today).
Islamabad Police apprehended 22-year-old Umar Hayat, the reported main suspect in the killing, a day after the incident. Hayat lived around 200 miles away from Islamabad in the city of Faisalabad. Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that the authorities had recovered the murder weapon as well as Yousaf’s iPhone and that the main suspect had confessed to the murder.
In a June 3 press conference, Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi, the Inspector General of Islamabad, offered details about the case. He called the accused “a monster, cold-blooded murderer” before adding that he was “now in the law’s grip.” Rizvi noted that the accused wanted to “become friends” with Yousaf, but the latter rejected him multiple times. “First, it was a cellular rejection. Now, it was a physical mode of rejection,” Rizvi elaborated.
Per the authorities, the suspect planned Yousaf’s murder. He broke into her home and shot her before fleeing the scene. Rizvi stated that the accused took Yousaf’s phone to erase any possible indications of his involvement. “It was a blind murder; there were no leads, and things were not clear,” he said. “Attempts were made to give the incident another angle, even though the aim of taking the mobile was to wipe out the clues.”
The authorities also mentioned that the accused hail from an impoverished background. He had completed his matriculation, which is the equivalent to high school in the US, with “no source of income.”
Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on ComingSoon.
