Two female secret agents are thought to have been behind the death of Kim Jong-un’s brother, it has been reported, after the arrest of a taxi who picked them up from the airport.
Kim Jong-nam, 45, was killed at Kuala Lumpur airport on Tuesday after being attacked by two women with “poisoned needles” while waiting to board a flight back to Macau, according to local TV reports.
A taxi driver in his thirties was arrested soon after CCTV footage had been analysed prompting a search for the two women, according to the Telegraph.
An unnamed senior police official told the newspaper: “We have already looked through the CCTV footage, hence we managed to arrest the taxi driver who had taken the two woman who carried out the assassination.”
He reportedly added that the two women were believed to be Vietnamese, and that the taxi driver said they were thought to be agents of a foreign country, but would not speculate the validity of reports that they were hired by the North Korean leader to carry out the alleged murder.
Malaysian police are now said to be searching for the two suspected Vietnamese agents, who are believed to still be in the country.
The North Korean government has reportedly asked that a post-mortem examination of the body does not take place — a request that has been denied by the authorities in Kuala Lumpur.
