Transvestite performing at function shot dead

MANSEHRA: A man allegedly killed a transvestite over a petty issue at a marriage function in Kotkay area here on Friday.

The members of the transgender community took to streets and blocked main road to traffic to demand the arrest of the accused. “Our community members are being killed without any reason in the entire province, but the police have failed to protect us,” said Maria Khan, the president of Shemale Association in Hazara, while talking to reporters. The members of the transgender community, who had assembled at the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where the body was taken for autopsy, were seen wailing.