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Shanghai police confirmed yesterday that a Canadian model had been murdered, and relatives had been told  that she was probably the victim of a robbery that turned violent.
Breaking an official silence on the case, Shanghai Public Security Bureau said Diana Gabrielle O'Brien was found dead in the  building where she lived in the city's Changning district. The case was first reported through the police hotline at about 5.30am on Monday.
It is rare for a  foreign national to be murdered on the mainland. Last year, Shanghai had  214 homicides.
'This case is  under further investigation,' a brief  police statement said.
O'Brien, 22, entered the mainland  on June 24. Family and friends at her home in Saltspring Island, British Columbia, said they were desperate for more information.
Jesse Blanchette, a friend, said Canadian police had told relatives O'Brien  was killed in a robbery, apparently passing on information from the Shanghai authorities. 'It sounds like it was a robbery gone bad. I think it was a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time,' he said.
Cameras and laptops had been taken in the robbery, and the body had been found  outside her flat but still in the building, he said.
It is  the second high-profile murder case in Shanghai in a week. On July 1, an unemployed Beijing man  killed six officers.
Outside the model's  residence in Zhaohua Road  yesterday, police kept journalists away by stringing yellow tape around the building.
O'Brien was planning to travel  home in two weeks after a month in Shanghai because she missed her family and did not like the assignments her local modelling agency, JH, was giving her, media reports said.
Her last assignment was dancing at a bar to promote a brand of whisky, far from the catwalk work she wanted.



Canadian model killed during robbery at Shanghai flat: police