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China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-19 07:53
Papal shooter released
The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison in Turkey yesterday, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported.
Mehmet Ali Agca, now 52, severely wounded the pontiff in Rome's St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. John Paul spent six hours on an operating table and survived.
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