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Pistorius to be released on Tuesday

Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison next Tuesday, about a year after he was sentenced to five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, local television stations ENCA and state broadcaster SABC said on their official Twitter feeds.

Reuters reported that Pistorius was found guilty in September 2014 of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter, after he fired four 9mm shots through a locked toilet door on February 14, 2013 killing model and law graduate Steenkamp.