KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 15): A woman who is believed to be one of the two assassins who killed Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was arrested at klia2 today, the Star Online reported.
The woman was nabbed by cops at the airport at about 9am. Star Online quoted the Deputy IGP Tan Sri Noor Rashid Ibrahim as saying: "It is her. We recognised her from the footage and picked her up. We are holding her in the Selangor police headquarters for questioning."
The woman, said to be in her mid-20s, was reported to have been holding a Vietnamese passport and had gone to klia2 to catch a flight to Vietnam. Police said her hame in the passport was Doan Thi Huong and her date of birth was 31 May 1988.
Star Online quoted Noor Rashid as saying that there was another female accomplice and that police were looking for "several more" suspects involved in the killing.
Star Online quoted police sources as saying they were looking for four men in connection with the case.
Kim Jong-nam had been planning to fly to Macau on Monday when he fell ill at klia2.
"The deceased ... felt like someone grabbed or held his face from behind," police official Fadzil Ahmat told Reuters. "He felt dizzy, so he asked for help at the ... counter of KLIA."
Kim was taken to an airport clinic where he still felt unwell, and it was decided to take him to hospital. He died in the ambulance on the way to Putrajaya Hospital, Fadzil added.
"We don't know if there was a cloth or needles; the receptionist said someone grabbed his face, he felt dizzy," Fadzil said.
South Korea's TV Chosun, a cable-TV network, reported that Kim had been poisoned with a needle by two women believed to be North Korean operatives who fled in a taxi and were at large, citing multiple South Korean government sources.
Photos of a woman said to be one of the assassins which was taken from CCTV footage at klia2 have been published in several news websites.