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DATE: SUNDAY, August 13, 1995                   TAG: 9508140139
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MOSCOW                                  LENGTH: Short

IN THE WORLD/ MURDER SUSPECT DEAD, PAPER REPORTS

A North Korean suspected of ordering the killing two American missionaries this spring has disappeared and is believed dead, a newspaper reported.

Chan Kyn Son, 32, was handed over to North Korean authorities after his arrest March 31, eight days after the slayings of Korean-American Chu Hon Yi, 60, and his wife, Kei Wol Yi, 59, both of Virginia Beach, the Izvestia newspaper said Friday.

The couple were found dead in their apartment in Khabarovsk, 200 miles from the Sea of Japan. Son confessed he had paid two men $100 each to kill the Yis because they had failed to fulfill a promise to get him to South Korea, the newspaper said.

Izvestia cited an unidentified ``reliable source'' as saying Son was dead, and that his remains had been shipped back to North Korea.

S. Africa says 277 killed as witches

PIETERSBURG, South Africa - Hundreds of people were killed last year in rituals or on suspicion of being witches, according to a government report.

The Commission on Witchcraft and Ritual Violence reported Friday that 277 people were killed in witchcraft-related cases in South Africa's poor Northern Province between April 1994 and April 1995.

- Associated Press

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