ANKARA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th October, 2018) Turkish police searched sewage network at an Istanbul street where the Saudi consulate is located in the probe into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, local media reported.
The law enforcement used video cameras during the operation, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Khashoggi went missing after entering the Saudi consulate on October 2. After weeks of denials, the Saudi authorities acknowledged that the journalist, a critic of Riyadh, was slain inside the consulate building.
Saudi law enforcement said 18 people had been detained in the case of Khashoggi murder. Turkey, meanwhile, is carrying out its own investigation into the incident.
On Tuesday, Turkey's Patriotic Party (VATAN) leader Dogu Perincek told Sputnik, citing security sources, that the body of the murdered journalist had been found in a well in the residence of the Saudi consul general in Istanbul.
