Web Desk (May 19, 2018): Pakistani exchange Program student, Sabika Sheikh was one of the students who lost their lives in heart-wrenching Fridays’ shooting in Texas.
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A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town.
Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistani exchange student, is one of the student victims in Friday’s shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas.
Sabika was an exchange student with YES, which is funded by the US State Department. It provides scholarships for secondary school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend one academic year in the US
A gunman killed 10, nine of them students, and wounded another 10 in the shooting.
The gunman, who was arrested on murder charges, was identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old junior at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas.
The Pakistan embassy in Washington confirmed Sheikh’s death in a series of tweets.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Sabika’s family and friends,” Pakistani ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said.
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