A young Pakistani international student run down and killed while appearing to pray in the middle of a South Australian road was heartbroken after a break-up and struggling financially.
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Samia Malik had been kneeling on North East Road at Hillcrest in Adelaide's north-east for approximately four minutes when the 20-year-old was struck by a car about 11pm on May 6 last year.
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The driver of the car, Ashton Friend, avoided jail last Friday when he was sentenced in South Australia's District Court for causing Samia's death and leaving the scene of the accident.
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Judge Anne Barnett said CCTV footage showed Samia's hands were in what looked like a 'praying motion' in the moments before she was killed.
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No explanation was provided as to why Samia might have been praying in such a dangerous location and a well-placed source described that prospect as 'ridiculous'.
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The Daily Mail can reveal Samia was having financial problems and had recently been forced to end a brief relationship with a young Pakistani man.
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It is understood Samia had been working part-time as a security officer and met the man through work but his family did not approve of them being together.
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A prominent member of South Australia's Pakistani community said Samia's family had been unwilling to discuss the circumstances leading up to her death.
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Young Pakistani woman Sania Malik, who was run down and killed while appearing to pray in the middle of an Australian road, had been heartbroken after a break-up and struggling financially.
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She is pictured
Her parents had travelled to Adelaide for their daughter's funeral and burial but had returned without offering public statements.
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'They were very tight-lipped about what caused that poor girl to be on the road,' the well-placed community member said.
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'Everybody wanted to know why she was there in the first place, to know what caused the accident.
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'The safest we can say, and what we heard from different sources, was that she was under lot of stress financially, and there was her involvement with a boy as well.
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'What I heard is that the boy's parents didn't agree, so that was added pressure.
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As for the suggestion Samia had been praying when she was struck by Friend's vehicle, the source said the idea was 'absurd'.
'What we know is that she was changing position on the road,' he said.
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'The [claim] that she was kneeling down as a prayer gesture, it was not correct.
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Samia Malik had been kneeling (above) on North East Road at Hillcrest in Adelaide's north-east for about four minutes when the 20-year-old student was struck by a car about 11pm on May 6 last year
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All around the world, Muslims pray like that - they kneel down.
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[It was suggested] because she was Muslim, she might be praying, which is totally absurd.
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'She was just under stress, just trying to sit down, not to pray.'
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The source said the main cause of Samia's troubles appeared to have been a lack of money.
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'First was financial,' he said.
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They have to come up with the fees and look after themselves.
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The part of the world they come from is not always supportive financially.'
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The source said it might never be known exactly why Samia put herself on the roadway in the path of Friend's vehicle.
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'The best source would be the family, but they didn't talk to us,' he said.
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'They didn't share a single thing.
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Something happens to the female of the house, they immediately become secret.'
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Another senior figure in South Australia's Pakistani community said Samia came from a 'good family' but they did not wish to engage with their local countrymen.
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Ashton Friend, the driver of the car that struck Samia Malick, avoided jail last Friday when he was sentenced in South Australia's District Court for causing Samia's death and leaving the scene of the accident.
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He is pictured
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Maybe they don't want to disclose but they didn't give us any of what happened,' he said.
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It's not good to interfere with someone's personal matters if they don't want to disclose.'
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'Nobody has answered what went wrong with her.
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Overseas students face a lot of challenges.
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They have to do everything on their own.'
Samia's older brother Zaheer Malik, who lives in Sydney, launched a GoFundMe appeal to cover his sister's funeral expenses which quickly raised $30,974.
Zaheer said he was writing 'with a shattered heart' as he described Samia being 'killed in a horrific hit-and-run in Adelaide'.
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'She was walking - just walking - when a driver hit her and drove away, leaving her on the road,' he said.
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'CPR couldn't save her.
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She died alone in a foreign country, far from her family, far from home.
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She came to Australia with dreams, with courage.
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