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| Kim Jong-Nam (Image: Flickr User - Conecta Abogados) |
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Malaysian police said on Sunday that four suspects from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) related to the death of a DPRK man had fled the country.
A postmortem on the DPRK man had been conducted but the cause of death remained unknown as the police were waiting for the pathology and toxicology results, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Noor Rashid Ibrahim told a press conference.
The 46-year-old man, who was found dead on Monday at the Kuala Lumpur airport, is believed to be Kim Jong Nam, the elder half-brother of DPRK's top leader Kim Jong Un.
But the deputy police chief said they still needed DNA samples from the next-of-kin of Kim to help identify the dead man.
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had earlier confirmed that the dead man was Kim Jong Nam.
Kim's family members would be given a priority to claim the body, but so far no one had made such requests, Rashid added.
He said the police were seeking four more suspects from the DPRK, whom they believed had fled the country on the same day of the killing. Police were also seeking three men who might assist the investigation, including a DPRK male.
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