"I am not dead, I'm alive"
These, the words of Iraqi TV presenter Liqa' 'Lolita' Saad whose murder was widely reported on social media and in Arabic news sources on Monday.
In a video which appeared on social media on Tuesday afternoon, Lolita said she wanted to clarify about the "picture that was shared appearing to show me dead - I am not dead, I am alive."
"It was a real picture - but it was an 'acted scene', an old acted scene."
"I thank everyone who loves me, who wrote nice comments for me, and the security services."
On Monday false reports began to circulate of Lolita's brutal murder, accompanied by a picture apparently of her lying on the ground covered in blood.
The news was reported by a number of Arabic-language sites, including Russia's state-funded RT outlet, which cited an "unidentified security source".
However, doubts as to the story's veracity soon emerged as Iraqi officials said that they could not yet confirm the death, and Lolita's colleagues began to deny the news online.
One of Lolita's colleagues Al Sumaria, the journalist Bilal Safa al-Husseini, posted this to Facebook on Monday evening:
The story of the killing of the person called Lolita is a lie and false. The Interior Ministry should specify that this is an electronic crime. Anyone who is not sure of the news they share, when it could affect people's sense of security and not be accurate, should be held to account by the officials responsible for cyber crime, that is their role.
While the news of this murder may not be true, it comes following a wave of killings in the Iraqi capital. Earlier this week a number of doctors were reportedly killed in a wave of murders in the city, while local media reports suggest as many as 200 people have been kidnapped in Baghdad so far this year.
A young Iraqi actor, Karar Noshi, was murdered earlier this month, allegedly by a Shia militia. It was suggested that Noshi had been targeted because of his long blonde hair, which had drawn attention on social media.
