Body Of Former Rwandan Spymaster Is Found In Johannesburg Hotel

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
2 January 2014
Tags:
South Africa, Rwanda

The South African police said Thursday that they had opened a murder investigation into the death of an exiled former spy chief from Rwanda and critic of President Paul Kagame, who was found dead in a hotel room with signs of possible strangulation. The body of Patrick Karegeya, a onetime head of Rwanda's military intelligence, was found at the upscale Michelangelo Towers hotel. He was "dead on the bed," a police statement said. "Preliminary investigations revealed that his neck was swollen.

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