A FORMER Miss Iraq has revealed she has received death threats following the murder of another pageant winner.

Shimaa Qasim said in a live Instagram video on Sunday that she received texts vowing “you’re next”, in a campaign suspected of targeting "Westernised" women.

The beauty queen received the haunting texts shortly after former Miss Baghdad and Miss Iraq runner up, Tara Fares, was shot dead by two motorcyclists while she was driving in the Iraqi capital a week ago.

A gunman shot her three times while her Porsche was stopped at traffic lights in Baghdad.

In the emotional clip the 23-year-old told her 2.7million followers that women in the country faced being “slaughtered like chickens” and branded Fares a “martyr.”

Fares is the latest victim of violence targeting secular women living in Iraq.

Before 22-year-old Fares was killed, she was bombarded with insults from people on social media accusing her of immodesty for being a professional model, the BBC reports.

She was half Iraqi and half Lebanese and shot to fame in 2015 after winning the Baghdad beauty pageant.

The beauty queen became a social media star in the country posting glam snaps of herself in low cut tops and showing off her tattoos.

Her make up tips YouTube channel had more than 120,000 followers and she often spoke out against political and religious leaders.

She also candidly discussed a brief marriage she had to an abusive husband when she was just 16-years-old.

Fares’ shooting followed the slaying of a female activist in the city of Basra and two high profile beauty professionals.

On August 17 plastic surgeon Dr Rafeef al-Yassiri, 32, known as ‘Iraq’s Barbie’ who often posted images of herself on social media, died under suspicious circumstances.

At first officials said she died from a drug overdose but as no updates have emerged in more than a month, some are beginning to speculate that there may have been foul play.

A week later Rasha al-Hassan, the owner of a well-known beauty centre in the capital, was found dead in her home.

Authorities said she had a heart attack

Hanaa Edwar, founder of human rights group the Iraqi al-Amal Association, told AFP that “attacking women who are public figures is a bid to force them to shut themselves away at home.”

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered intelligence officers to investigate links between the killings and the threat against women in the public eye who live a Western lifestyle.

In a statement, he spoke of “evidence suggesting that there is a plan formulated by organised parties to undermine security under the pretext of fighting against depravity.”