Khashoggi was suffocated, Istanbul prosecutor says (Punch)

Istanbul’s chief prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday journalist Jamal Khashoggi was suffocated as soon as he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate on Oct. 2 in a pre-planned killing.

According to prosecutor Irfan Fidan, Khashoggi’s body was then dismembered and disposed of.

The prosecutor, in a statement said that no concrete results were reached in talks between him and Saudi public prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb.

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor held talks overnight with Turkish intelligence officials over the investigation into the killing of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Demiroren news agency said.

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