Posted on 09/07/2015 11:10:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Dahlia Yehia, 25, arrived in Nepal on July 20 to serve in Pokhara, where she was killed by a teacher named Narayan Paudel, according to Hari Bahadur Pal, the Kaski District Police superintendent:.
Police said Paudel confessed to beating Yehia to death, putting her body in a sack and dumping it in the river. Paudel, who met Yehia through a Couchsurfing website, said he killed her August 4, the superintendent said. Her body has not been recovered.
The site connects travelers with local hosts for accommodations.
Yehia, an art teacher, was backpacking through Nepal, according to the Facebook page of Sci-Tech Preparatory, a school in Austin, Texas, where she taught last year.
“The kids loved having her for their art teacher last year, especially the high school kids who went to the graffiti park downtown on city buses with their backpacks loaded with cans of spray paint!! We are all saddened by the loss of such a special spirit!” a post read.
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The family quoted the Quran: “Indeed we belong to God, and indeed to Him we will return.”
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“You’ve been to Nepal?”
Try reading that first sentence fast, five times.
Not much detail in this article, but I surmise she was a Muslim woman living a rather free spirit life who met a Muslim man who then beat her to death. Sounds like life in the Muslim world.
Women who spend time growing up in relative safety are the worst at assessing risk. I’m a male and I am skeptical of hanging with strangers alone in a strange land. Some people in this world are predators.
It appears from the article her family is muslim, so I assume she is. It’s still not clear why the perp did it. I guess it could be for some islamic reason.
Couchsurfing? Perhaps I'm out of touch but is this a big thing in India? Anywhere?
I don’t know. He sounds like a moderate. She wasn’t decapitated and there is no mention of rape.
Depending on the kindness of strangers has always been and always will be dangerous, even in Nepal.
Basically an internet phenomenon where you ask strangers online for a place to stay for a few nights, often the couch, hence the name.
Yeah, I know. Stupid and risky.
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Muslims in Nepal are only about 4% of the population and are typically not found in the Pokhara region, but rather closer to the border with India.
So it’s like digital hitchhiking?
You are bad.
In the US, Couchsurfing is for single young men.
Never heard of a woman Couchsurfing.
Even tough bad things happen, I would rather be unarmed in Nepal than in the USA. Not even a question about that. I have been to Nepal 5 times and can say without question that I never felt threatened there. That being aid, maniacs exist everywhere, as this case shows.
Couch surfing sounds very dangerous.
It’s dangerous for a person to stay at the house of someone they don’t know.
And it’s dangerous if you have a spare couch, and rent that couch out to a stranger.
It’s a risky thing whether you are the buyer or seller. Too many people will do this to victimize someone else.
a female member of our church was there before the earthquake handing out clothes then the earthquake changed some of her work. setting up housing and stuff.
Thanks. You’re right, it does seem quite risky.
I agree with you. I have no doubt that scores of living John Wayne Gacey, Ted Bundy or Aileen Wournos analogs out there are already linked in.
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