SBS Dinka News: Journalist Jamal Khashoggi 'died after fight' in Turkish consulate: Saudi Arabia

Jamal Khashoggi.

Jamal Khashoggi. Source: AP

Saudi Arabia has admitted that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul, state media has reported.


 

"The discussions between Jamal Khashoggi and those he met at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul... devolved into a fistfight, leading to his death," the Saudi Press Agency said, citing the public prosecutor.


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