PHOTO: Russian Ambassador shot dead by a gun man shouting “We die in Aleppo, you die here”
According to news report, a Russian ambassador, Andrei Karlov, was today
shot dead by a man said to be a Turkish police officer, during the ambassador’s
speech at the embassy...
The gun man who shot the ambassador
five times, was reported to also have said : ‘Don’t forget Aleppo, Don’t forget
Syria. Only death will remove me here.’...He was also part of the security details in the embassy, standing just behind the ambassador before the shooting...
It is believed he was 22-year-old Turkish police officer Mert
Altintas from Ankara and in the special operations unit so had police ID,
allowing him to get close to the ambassador.
Russia government are yet to speak on the incident, as at this report,
but the death of the ambassador in Turkey, is not going to be that which Russia
would take likely, given recent history of both countries...
...happenings in Aleppo has triggered a lot of hatred towards the Russian government, and incidents such as this, did not come as a surprise to many...more updates later...
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