KUALA LUMPUR: Two women were charged Wednesday with the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, after his assassination at a Malaysian airport last month. Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, from Vietnam, were surrounded by a heavy police presence as they were charged in a Kuala Lumpur court over the February 13 killing. Siti, wearing a red T-shirt, was brought in first to hear the murder charge read out before being taken away. Police accuse the pair of having wiped the VX nerve agent into Kim’s face at Kuala Lumpur airport. More than 100 heavily armed police wearing balaclavas and wielding automatic weapons had secured the entrance to the court.

Source: Manila Times March 01, 2017 04:23 UTC