DHAKA: A former head of Rwanda’s external intelligence service was found strangled in a hotel in South Africa, where he has lived in exile for several years.

His opposition party said, reports Al Jazeera.

‘The Rwandan opposition is deeply saddened to announce the assassination of Colonel Patrick Karegeya in Johannesburg,’ the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) said in a statement on Thursday.

‘His body was found in a hotel where he went for a meeting.’

‘It is true,’ Frank Ntwali, the party’s chairman for Africa told media.

‘He was strangled by agents of (Rwandan President Paul) Kagame.’

Ntwali said Karegeya was killed at the Michelangelo Towers, an upmarket hotel in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton. It was not immediately clear if he was killed on Tuesday night or on Wednesday.

BDST: 1450 HRS, JAN 02, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor