Russian embassy in Baku lowers national flag at half-mast

  20 December 2016    Read: 2954
Russian embassy in Baku lowers national flag at half-mast
Russia’s Embassy in Baku has lowered the national flag to half-mast to pay respect to Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was shot dead yesterday in Ankara.
Baku residents are also said to have laid flowers outside the embassy.

The Russian diplomat was fatally wounded by an armed gunman on Dec. 19 evening as he made a speech during the opening of a photo exhibition devoted to Russia in the Center for Contemporary Art in Turkey’s capital Ankara.

The attacker, identified as police officer Mert Altintas, was killed by local security forces shortly after.

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