Monday, June 23, 2008

Journalist 'reported own murders'

Police in Macedonia have arrested a journalist on suspicion that he is behind three murders he reported on.

The journalist, Vlado Taneski, is accused of raping, torturing and killing three elderly women in the south-western town of Kicevo.

Macedonian police began to suspect him after he included details in his reports that they had not made public.

Other men have reportedly already been convicted of the first two murders. The third was committed last month.

Mr Taneski, 56, has not yet been charged with any offence, police said.

Mr Taneski's editor at the Utrinski Vesnik newspaper said: "We are all shocked with this. I know him as an exceptionally quiet man and I would never believe that he is capable of doing something like that."

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