TikTok Creator Ayesha Gilamana, 28, Dies After Gunmen Open Fire on Car

Bibi's father later identified her body at THQ Hospital Taxila, where his other two children were also being treated for injuries.

Rudy Blalock

Published: 8/17/2026, 11:26:28 PM EDT

TikTok Creator Ayesha Gilamana, 28, Dies After Gunmen Open Fire on Car — Police tape in Karachi, Pakistan, in a file photo. (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)

A Pakistani social media star known to her 1.3 million TikTok followers as Ayesha Gilamana was gunned down inside a moving vehicle, with her family saying a financial dispute over land may have triggered the killing.

Shamsu Bibi, 28, was shot in the neck on Aug. 14, near Taxila, Pakistan, according to local outlets Daily Aaj and Daily Jang, citing a First Information Report (FIR) filed by her father. Her brother, Nematullah, and 15-year-old sister, Asma, were also in the car and were injured when the vehicle spun out of control and struck a dump truck.

According to the FIR, Bibi left home with her siblings after taking a phone call from a man identified as Kashif. As the car passed a gas station, two men on a motorcycle pulled alongside and opened fire before fleeing, according to digital Pakistani news outlet Voicepk.net, which reported it had obtained CCTV footage showing the attackers waiting in a nearby market before the shooting.

Bibi's father later identified her body at THQ Hospital Taxila, where his other two children were also being treated for injuries.

Land Dispute Cited as Possible Motive

Bibi's father told police the attack stemmed from a land sale gone wrong. He said his daughter had sold a plot to two men, identified as Kausar and Javed, also known as Shaheen, and had faced threats after pressing them for payment. The father alleged in the FIR that the pair arranged the shooting through hired gunmen over the unpaid funds.

Police told Daily Aaj that all three named suspects are from the Lower Dir district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and that special teams have launched raids across multiple locations to find them.

The case was registered at Taxila Police Station under charges covering murder, attempted murder, and aiding a crime, and that Bibi's brother may be able to identify the attackers if shown to him, police said.

Brother Says No Arrests Made

Despite the raids, no suspects had been arrested as of Aug. 17, Bibi's brother, Niamatullah, told Voicepk.net in an interview. He called on Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif to intervene directly to ensure the case is prosecuted.

Bibi had built a following of more than 1.3 million on TikTok over four years, along with 176,000 subscribers on a YouTube channel that reshared her livestreams with other creators. Her TikTok account was switched to private following her death.

Bibi's death comes a month after the July killing of a Brazilian influencer and her boyfriend outside Porto Seguro, Brazil. The pair were found shot to death on a rural road outside the beach town of Porto Seguro, in the southern part of Bahia state, on July 18.

In a separate recent killing, Ugandan soccer player David Owori, 27, died after unidentified attackers assaulted him near his home in the Makindye suburb of Kampala. His club, SC Villa, called for authorities to find and prosecute those responsible, describing the captain’s death as a loss for both the team and Uganda.