Pakistan women's footballer Shahlyla Baloch dies in accident
Karachi: Pakistan women's football team striker Shahlyla Ahmadzai Baloch died in a car crash in Karachi late Wednesday night.
Baloch's body will be taken to Kalat for burial, reports the Dawn.
Born in 1996, Baloch was also a striker on the Balochistan women's football team. Her sister Raheela Zarmain is associated with the football team as a manager.
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Police officials said that Shahlyla's Toyota Cruiser went out of control and crashed into a sidewalk and iron pool.
Shahlyla was sitting in the passenger seat when the accident took place.
Shahlyla was the first Pakistani woman footballer to get a hat-trick abroad
Police officials said that Shahlyla was returning with her cousin, Fadeayan Baloch, with whom she was engaged too, from a restaurant when the Toyota Cruiser she was travelling in went out of control and crashed into a sidewalk and iron pool.
The police said Shahlyla was sitting in the passenger seat when the accident took place.
"It is true that she passed away," a family member said.
Baloch, 21, was one of the finest strikers for Pakistan women's football team. She represented the country at the South Asian Football Federation Women Football Championship 2014 in Islamabad, which was the last international event that Pakistan women's team competed in.
She also had the honour of being the first Pakistani woman footballer to get a hat-trick abroad when she played for a club in Maldives last year.