Community mourns 'brilliant student' Aya Hachem as five charged with murder
by Josh Halliday North of England correspondent from on (#53SNE)
Islamic prayer said near scene where law student, who fled Lebanon as a child, died
The family of a remarkable and inspirational" law student killed in a botched drive-by shooting have said their only comfort is that she died during the holy month of Ramadan, as tributes flowed in for a teenager whose whole ethos was to commit everything to this country".
Aya Hachem, 19, was fatally shot from a passing car as she shopped for groceries near her home in Blackburn on Sunday afternoon. She was not the intended victim, police said.
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