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The incident you're describing matches the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan (also spelled Neda Agha Soltan) in Iran.

She was a 26-year-old Iranian woman shot in the upper chest/heart by a sniper (widely reported as a Basij militia member) on June 20, 2009, during the protests following Iran's disputed presidential election. She was standing near a protest march in Tehran, not actively marching but observing/walking back to her car with her music teacher. The moment of her death—blood pouring from her mouth and nose as bystanders tried to help—was captured on a cellphone video by a friend of a doctor who attempted to save her. The footage spread rapidly online, becoming one of the most iconic and widely viewed symbols of the 2009 Green Movement protests against the government.

The video showed her collapsing and dying within minutes, with screams around her, making it a viral image of state repression.

While other cases exist—like Hadis Najafi (shot multiple times, including in the heart/chest area, during the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests in Iran)—none match as closely to the "shot in the heart during a protest march and died on camera" description with such global recognition as Neda's. Her name and video became synonymous with that kind of tragic, on-camera death during Middle Eastern protests.

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