Palme killer in Turkey

STOCKHOLM - The killer of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is in Turkey, according to Eugene de Kock, the South African…

STOCKHOLM - The killer of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is in Turkey, according to Eugene de Kock, the South African apartheid-era police chief now in jail, a Swedish newspaper reported yesterday.

However, de Kock said the assassin was not ex-Rhodesian soldier Anthony White nor Swede Bertil Wedin, who have been accused of being behind the killing, Aftonbladet reported.

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