This story, which sounds like it belongs in an espionage thriller, just keeps getting more bizarre.
Kim Jong-nam, the long-exiled older half-brother of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Kong-un, was poisoned at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with two female assassins strongly suspected of his death, reportedly from a fountain pen, hired to murder him.
Since then an image of a woman wearing a T-shirt saying 'Lol' was circulated and it was widely reported that she was one of the culprits. It transpires this is 28-year-old Doan Thi Huong, 28, from Vietnam.
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But the other woman, Indonesian 25-year-old Siti Aisyah, has come up with an incredible scenario. She says she didn't know what she was doing.
She says she thought she was in some kind of comedy show.
Indonesia's national police chief Tito Karnavian says she claims she was supposedly duped into believing she was part of a prank.
He says she was paid for what she believed to be an involvement in a popular hidden camera show.
Police at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, outside the forensic department. Credit: PA
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He says that Aisyah and Doan were asked to convince men to close their eyes and spray them with water as part of the prank and each time they were given some money for it. But when the target was Jong-nam, the water had been replaced by a lethal substance.
He expresses: "Such an action was done three or four times and they were given a few dollars for it, and with the last target, Kim Jong-nam, allegedly there were dangerous materials in the sprayer."
"She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents."
Jong-nam. Credit: PA
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Some local papers have claimed the police are trying to track down four North Korean agents, but as yet the mystery just keeps on rolling along.
Jong-nam has been involved in a number of failed assassination attempts in the past. In 2011, North Korean spies reportedly tried to kill him, which ended in a shoot-out between the spies and his bodyguards.
Jong-un was reportedly worried that were he in North Korea, he would pose a legitimate threat to his rule as an older half-brother. Jong-nam is the son of Song Hye-rim, who was an actress and 'favourite mistress' of Jong-il.
Jong-nam initially fell out of favour with his father when he was arrested at Tokyo Narita airport in 2001 on a fake Dominican Republic passport. He was detained in China and explained his reason for the visit was to enjoy Disneyland.
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