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Urgent: Russian Foreign Ministry confirms Ambassador to Turkey dies in gunman attack in Ankara

Xinhua, December 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the country's Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov had died in a gunman attack on Monday in Ankara, and the ministry declared the attack a terrorist act. Endit