What happened: In the wake of the recent killing of trans-people, Dr.Moiz Mehrub Awan took to her Twitter handle and stated the that the murder rate of transgender persons in Khyber Pakhtunkwa is 789 per 100k people, “The highest murder rate is in El Salvador at 52 per 100k people,” as Dr.Awan claimed that KPK’s ratios is 15 times more than this. Click here to see Dr. Moiz’s Twitter thread. Details: Dr Moiz further wrote, “I calculated this by averaging trans murders over 6 years in KPK and taking the number of transgender ppl in KPK as a denominator,” adding that the data for this is easily available on Macrodata and World Bank. What you need to know: During a shooting incident in Khyber-Mardan Pakhtunkhwa’s area on March 17, a transgernder named Chaand was killed, while her friend, Mehboob was injured, according to police officials. While condemning the incident, Arzu, a social activist from K-transgender P’s community, told The Express Tribune that 70 transgender people have been killed in the province in the last few years, but not a single accused has been convicted. Previously: On March 14, after a group of armed men came into their residence and opened fire in Mansehra, five trans women were wounded and injured. A day later, Sabteen Khan, a man suspected of shooting was arrested by the police.