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Argentine ex-police boss kills self

IN a bizarre suicide episode, a former police chief in Argentina, Mario Ferreyra, wanted for alleged crimes against humanity, has shot himself dead in front of television cameras.
Ferreyra was accused of kidnapping and torture during the military government that ran Argentina between 1976 and 1983.

Ferreyra who was giving an interview on top of a water tank at his home in the northern province of Tucuman, killed himself on sighting police officers coming to arrest him.

The former police boss who was wearing his customary black shirt and cowboy hat had told the interviewer that he was innocent and had not committed any crimes.

He then told his wife, Maria, that he would love her forever, pulled a pistol from his boot and shot himself behind the ear.

The Cronica television cameras were still rolling, transmitting live, as the distraught family gathered round.
Police, who had come to arrest Ferreyra at his farm, rushed him, but it was too late. He was dead.
The victims' families say the suicide was part of a pact of silence - that the former police chief would not testify against former colleagues accused of kidnapping and killing some of the tens of thousands of Argentines who died during a period that became known as the "Dirty war".