Russian Ambassador Assassinated in Turkey By Man Posing As Police
By Bob Owens
The Russian Ambassador to Turkey has been murdered by someone who shouted “We die in Aleppo, you die here.”
UPDATE: The gunman shouted “we die in Aleppo, you die here” as he shot the Russian ambassador 5 times, he was then killed by security forces pic.twitter.com/rEBl3GCxdy
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Details of the assassination are just starting to roll in.
Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Ankara, was seriously wounded in a gun attack in the Turkish capital on Monday and was taken to hospital, NTV and other broadcasters reported.
Turkish police have fatally shot the alleged gunman, NTV is reporting.
Karlov was several minutes into a speech at the embassy-sponsored photo exhibition in the capital when a man wearing a suit and tie shouted “Allahu Akbar” and fired at least eight shots, according to an AP photographer in the audience. The attacker also said some words in Russian and smashed several of the photos hung for the exhibition.
A Reuters witness said that while gunfire rang out for some time after the attack, it had now stopped. A Hurriyet newspaper reporter said the attacker chanted Islamist slogans.
CNN Turk reported that the gunman entered the …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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