Rwanda spy chief killed in hotel

Police have begun a murder investigation after Rwanda’s former spy chief was found dead in a hotel in South Africa. Opposition leaders accused President Paul Kagame of ordering his assassination.

The opposition coalition Rwandan National Congress said Patrick Karegeya, a former colonel and long-time Kagame ally in war who turned against him in peace, was found strangled in a room at Johannesburg’s plush Michel angelo Towers hotel. A police statement said: “He was found in the hotel room dead on the bed. Preliminary investigations revealed that his neck (was) swollen. A towel with blood and a rope were found in the hotel room safe.”

Congress co-ordinator Theogene Rudasing was aid Mr Karegeya’s death follows a pattern of assassinations ordered by Mr Kagame.