Writer Jamal Khashoggi was slaughtered in a battle in the Saudi department in Istanbul, the nation's state TV reports, citing an underlying request.
Appointee knowledge boss Ahmad al-Assiri and Saud al-Qahtani, senior assistant to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, were sacked over the issue, it says.
US President Donald Trump said what had happened was "unsuitable" however included that Saudi Arabia was an "incredible partner".
This is the first run through the kingdom has conceded Mr Khashoggi is dead.
The affirmation pursues two weeks of refusals that Saudi Arabia had any contribution in the vanishing of the conspicuous Saudi faultfinder when he entered the department in Istanbul on 2 October to look for printed material for his prospective marriage.
The Saudi kingdom had gone under expanded strain to clarify Mr Khashoggi's vanishing after Turkish authorities said he had been purposely murdered inside the department, and his body dissected.
On Friday, Turkish police enlarged their hunt from the office grounds to a close-by backwoods where anonymous authorities trust his body may have been discarded.
Eyewitnesses are addressing whether Riyadh's Western partners will discover the Saudis' record of a "messed up interpretation" persuading - and whether it will induce them not to make reformatory move against Saudi Arabia.
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