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Turkish police suspect Saudi journalist Khashoggi was killed at consulate: Report

Turkish authorities suspect that missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, was killed inside the consulate, two Turkish sources told Reuters on Saturday.

"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate," one of the sources, a Turkish official, said.

A senior Turkish police source told MEE that Khashoggi had been "brutally tortured, killed and cut into pieces. Everything was videotaped to prove the mission had been accomplished and the tape was taken out of the country".

The police said about 15 Saudis, including officials, came to Istanbul on two private flights on Tuesday and were at the consulate at the same time as the journalist. They left again the same day, police added, AFP reported.

Their diplomatic bags could not be opened, a source told MEE, but Turkish intelligence is sure that Khashoggi's remains were not in them.

Another police source told MEE: “The consulate is surrounded by cameras, no evidence of Khashoggi leaving was recorded on them."

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