{"id":239764,"date":"2025-08-06T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=239764"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:42:49","slug":"pakistani-and-afghan-nationals-arrested-in-connection-with-dominican-womans-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/pakistani-and-afghan-nationals-arrested-in-connection-with-dominican-womans-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani and Afghan nationals arrested in connection with Dominican woman&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yasir-Riaz-Diario-Libre-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239804\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yasir-Riaz-Diario-Libre-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yasir-Riaz-Diario-Libre-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yasir-Riaz-Diario-Libre-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yasir-Riaz-Diario-Libre-1536x856.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yasir-Riaz-Diario-Libre.png 1784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two foreign nationals were arrested in the Dominican Republic while allegedly attempting to flee to Haiti. They are wanted in connection with the killing of a young woman in Haina, in a 5 August dated Diario Libre report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement from the National Police&#8217;s Interpol Santo Domingo office, the suspects are identified as Yasil Riaz, a 31-year-old Pakistani national, and Hikma Tullah Atta Mohammad, a 29-year-old Afghan national. Both are allegedly linked to the death of B\u00e9bele Estefan\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez Casado, 23, whose body was discovered on the banks of the Haina River in the San Crist\u00f3bal province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrests were made in S\u00e1bana Cruz, a district in the B\u00e1nica municipality of El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a, on the border with Haiti during a joint police operation. Authorities stated that the men were stopped while riding a red Tauro 200 motorcycle and asking unusual questions about how to get to Haiti, which raised suspicion among officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A subsequent check of the Interpol database confirmed that Riaz and Mohammad were both wanted on an arrest warrant from the San Crist\u00f3bal prosecutor&#8217;s office. Authorities also noted that the men had been residing in the Canastica sector of San Crist\u00f3bal, where police had conducted previous searches before their attempted escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2025\/08\/05\/capturan-a-dos-extranjeros-por-el-homicidio-de-una-joven-en-haina\/3205069\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two foreign nationals were arrested in the Dominican Republic while allegedly attempting to flee to Haiti. They are wanted in connection with the killing of a young woman in Haina, in a 5 August dated Diario Libre report. According to a statement from the National Police&#8217;s Interpol Santo Domingo office, the suspects are identified as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/pakistani-and-afghan-nationals-arrested-in-connection-with-dominican-womans-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239806,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239764\/revisions\/239806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}