Suspect in Bulgarian Murder Case Extradited From Germany

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SOFIA—Germany has extradited the suspect in the killing of Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova to Bulgaria, an Interior Ministry official said on Oct. 17.

Bulgarian Severin Krasimirov, is to be charged in person with the rape and murder of 30-year-old Marinova, whose body was found in a park in her Danube hometown of Ruse in on Oct 6. Police said she was beaten, raped, and died of suffocation.