Aya Masarwe was on a video call to her sister in Israel when she was attacked. Police hunt for opportunistic killer after brutal murder
Bundoora death: Israeli student Aya Masarwe on video call with sister when attacked (Guardian)
A young woman who was killed outside a Bundoora shopping centre was an Israeli student who was on a video call to her younger sister when she was attacked.
Aya Masarwe, 21, had been in Australia for about six months on a study abroad program at LaTrobe University.
She had been returning home to her apartment near the university’s main Bundoora campus, just a few hundred metres from the Polaris shopping centre where her body was found on Wednesday morning.
Police believe she may have been followed home from the city by a man who boarded the no.86 tram and got off at the same stop as her on the corner of Plenty Road and Main Drive.
Her uncle, Rame Masarwe, said she was on the phone to her younger sister about 11pm on Tuesday when she was apparently attacked. Her father was expected to arrive in Australia from Israel on Thursday to identify her body.