Turkish source tells MEE that journalist was killed and dismembered in a study room at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul (Reuters/File photo)
Middle East Eye: Jamal Khashoggi's killing took seven minutes, Turkish source tells MEE
Middle East Eye publishes first details of audio tape acquired by Turkish investigators probing what happened to Saudi journalist.
It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist's last moments told Middle East Eye.
Khashoggi was dragged from the Consul General’s office at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and onto the table of his study next door, the Turkish source said.
Horrendous screams were then heard by a witness downstairs, the source said.
"The consul himself was taken out of the room. There was no attempt to interrogate him. They had come to kill him,” the source told MEE.
The screaming stopped when Khashoggi - who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on 2 October - was injected with an as yet unknown substance.
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Update: Suspects in Khashoggi Case Had Ties to Saudi Crown Prince (MSN/New York Times)
WNU Editor: Everything about this case stinks. And all the information on what happened to Jamal Khashoggi has come from the Turks. But I cannot help but sense that there is more to this story than what they are telling us.
