A victim of the Istanbul attack appeared to predict her own death in a Facebook post before she arrived in Turkey.
Rita Chami was killed when an ISIS gunman went on a rampage at the upmarket Reina nightclub on New Year’s Eve.
Both Rita and her boyfriend are thought to have been shot multiple times as the gunman unloaded a total of 160 bullets from six magazines.
Before travelling to the country Chami wrote on Facebook: ‘Hopefully we will have fun in Turkey, worst case scenario is that I will die in a blast and follow my mum.’
The 26-year-old, a student at the American University of Science and Technology in Lebanon, is said to have died in the arms of her boyfriend.
She also posted a poem in Arabic about how those who have died are “always there” and “around us”.
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However, his friend Jason Orfali wrote on social media: “Just to clarify some false information that our beloved media provided us with.
“Elias Wardini did not run away from the shooting (he was unfortunate not to escape).
“Elias Wardini stayed behind because his fiance was shot twice he went back to help her and was shot three times and died in her arms, he loved her to the extent that he stayed behind to help her and it cost him his life.
“ … don’t ever dare to think that Elias died in some river! He stayed behind to protect the ones he love and died doing so.”
