Royal hoax DJs taken off air amid anger over death

SYDNEY (AFP) - Two Australian radio presenters who made a hoax call to the hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine were taken off the air Saturday after the nurse who took the call was found dead in a suspected suicide. Jacintha Saldanha answered the phone when presenters from Sydney’s 2Day FM called pretending to be Queen Elizabeth II and William’s father Prince Charles, before passing it onto a colleague who divulged details of Kate’s condition.

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