A picture of an assassin yelling as he stands beside the body of his victim has won the World Press Photo of the Year award.

Turkish photographer Burhan Özbilici took the image seconds after Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a 22-year-old policeman, shot Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, at an art exhibition in Ankara on December 19 last year. Altintas was killed by armed police shortly afterwards.

Mary F. Calvert, a member of the jury, said it had been difficult to agree on a winner. ‘In the end we felt that the picture of the Year was an explosive image that really spoke to the hatred of our times,’ she said. ‘Every time it came on the screen you almost had to move back because it’s such an explosive image.’

Özbilici, a 59-year-old Turkish national, works with the Associated Press news and photo agency and is based in Istanbul.

Other winners included Jonathan Bachman of Thomson Reuters, for his picture of a black woman in a full-length dress being held by police at a protest against police violence in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and New York Times photographer Daniel Berehulak for a photo taken at the funeral of an alleged drug dealer in the Philippines.

Jury member Tanya Habjouqa said: “It was a very intense, sometimes brutal, discussion—sometimes even emotional—but I feel proud. I think we were brave in our decision. We were bold. I think the selection is definitely going to push forward a debate and I think it is a debate that is essential to have.”

Now in their 60th year, the awards are handed out by the World Press Photo Foundation, based in Amsterdam, which is holding an exhibition of the winning entries in the city’s Nieuwe Kerk from April 14.

A gallery of winners can be seen here: https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2017