The State Department says it’s a Level 2 “Exercise Increased Caution” country. I’m kind of surprised her parents let her go to school there. I assume they were paying the tuition and could have said no. That said, I am truly sorry for those parents. They probably thought they were giving their daughter the adventure of a lifetime. Instead, she was murdered.
I have spent time in Level 4 prohibited areas for all US Federal employees. You need to always be on guard and with safe people familiar with the area.