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| Kim Jong-Nam (Image: Flickr User - Conecta Abogados) |
MALAYSIAN police made a third arrest yesterday in their hunt for the people involved in the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The third person, whose nationality was not disclosed, is the friend of an Indonesian woman detained earlier in the day in connection with the death of Kim Jong Nam at the airport in the Malaysian capital on Monday, police said.
“He was detained to facilitate investigations as he is the boyfriend of the second suspect,” said Selangor state police chief Abu Samah Mat.
The Indonesian woman was remanded in custody for seven days along with another woman, who held a Vietnamese travel document, caught trying to leave the country through the budget airline terminal of Kuala Lumpur airport on Wednesday, the Bernama state news agency reported.
Kim Jong Nam, 46, was assaulted with what was believed to be a fast-acting poison as he was about to leave on a flight to Macau. He sought help but collapsed and died on his way to hospital.
Malaysian authorities rebuffed North Korean officials’ efforts to stop an autopsy being carried out, according to Malaysian government sources.
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