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Family refuses to claim body of Russian ambassador’s murderer

This picture taken on December 19, 2016 shows Andrey Karlov (L), the Russian ambassador to Ankara, lying on the floor after being shot by a gunman (R) during an attack during a public event in Ankara. A gunman crying "Aleppo" and "revenge" shot Karlov while he was visiting an art exhibition in Ankara on December 19, witnesses and media reports said. The Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency said the gunman had been "neutralised" in a police operation, without giving further details. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGER

The family of 22-year-old Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a police officer who assassinated the Russian ambassador to Turkey in December, has refused to claim the assassin’s body, which as a result will be buried by a municipality in Ankara.

Altıntaş shot Ambassador Andrei Karlov to death while the ambassador was giving a speech at an art gallery in Ankara on Dec. 19.

He was subsequently killed in a police operation in the same venue.

Altıntaş’s body was taken to the Keçiören Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) in Ankara for an autopsy.

His autopsy was completed on Dec. 21. Altıntaş’s body remained in the Keçiören ATK morgue for 15 days in line with relevant procedures for the family to claim the body.

However, Altıntaş’s family did not claim his body during the span of 15 days, prompting the ATK to write to the Keçiören Municipality asking for the burial of Altıntaş’s body.

The police officer will be buried by the municipality in a cemetery where people with no relatives and unclaimed bodies are buried.

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