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MOSCOW: The Russian ambassador to Ankara died Monday after being shot in the Turkish capital, the foreign ministry in Moscow said, describing the incident as a "terrorist act".
"Today in Ankara as a result of an attack the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov received wounds that he died from," ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in televised comments.
"We qualify what happened as a terrorist act," she said. "The murderers will be punished.
"Today this issue will be raised at the UN Security Council. Terrorism will not win out."
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