Video Footage Shows Apparent Khashoggi ‘Body Double’ Exiting Consulate

Updated at 9:13 p.m. ET.

Newly released surveillance footage shows a man apparently wearing the same clothes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was wearing the day he disappeared after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. A Turkish ruling party official called the footage evidence of a Saudi cover-up, while another official described the man seen in the video as a “body double.”

Khashoggi, who was a U.S. resident and critic of Saudi policy, entered the consulate on Oct. 2. Last week, Saudi Arabia said Khashoggi had been killed and that it believed Khashoggi died in the consulate as a result of a fight.