Women Suspects Arrive At Court For Kim Murder Charge

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 01st Mar, 2017 ) - Two women accused of assassinating Kim Jong-Nam with a lethal nerve agent were Wednesday brought to a Malaysian court under intense security to be charged with murder.

Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, from Vietnam, made their first public appearance since their arrest in the days after the sensational February 13 killing of the North Korean leader's half brother.

If convicted of the murder at Kuala Lumpur's international airport they face death by hanging.

The pair arrived at the isolated courthouse outside the capital in a police van, part of a convoy of 20 vehicles escorted by police outriders.

The van and the entrance to the building were secured by more than 100 heavily armed police wearing balaclavas and wielding automatic weapons. The women entered the building wearing t-shirts, surrounded by a scrum of reporters and police. Police accuse the suspects of having wiped the VX nerve agent, developed for chemical warfare, into Kim's face.