ISTANBUL (AFP) – A man suspected of killing two young women in Istanbul took his own life on Friday, said the city authorities, the latest in a series of murders of women in Turkiye.
The DHA news agency said the man had beheaded one of his two victims on the city’s historic ramparts.
The suspect and the two women were all aged 19, said Istanbul officials. The women had been killed within 30 minutes of each other, they added. It was not known if they knew their attacker. One monitoring group says there have been 290 murders of women this year, with over 160 “suspect” killings classed as suicides or accidents.
