Russian ambassador to Sudan found dead in Khartoum

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Russian ambassador to Sudan found dead in Khartoum

11:06 CAT | 23 Aug 2017

Ambassador Mirgayas Shirinsky was found dead in his pool on Wednesday night according to the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Russia’s ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinsky, was found dead at his Khartoum residence on Wednesday, the Sudanese foreign ministry said.

“The Russian ambassador died this evening at his Khartoum residence,” the ministry said, without giving a cause of death.

Sources told Al Arabiya that the ambassador was found drowned in his swimming pool without further elaborating.

The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in their statment that Mr Shirinsky has “taken true steps to better the relationship between Khartoum and Moscow”.

This is the ninth death of a Russian diplomat within a year,

In July Denis Voronenkov, 45, was gunned down outside a hotel in Kiev. Voronenkov and his wife both spoke out against Putin after they left Russia for Ukraine in October.

Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, at the United Nations September 25, 2016 in New York.

Alexander Kadakin, 67, the Russian ambassador to India, died after a short illness on January 26.

Andrey Malanin, a senior diplomat at the Russian embassy in Greece, was found dead in early January.

A Former intelligence official found dead in his car. Oleg Erovinkin, who had close ties to Russian intelligence, was found dead on December 26 sitting in his car on the streets of Moscow.

In the highest profile killing, Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, 62, was assassinated in Ankara on December 20. He was shot at point-blank range by a gunman while speaking at an art exhibition.

On the same day as Karlov’s killing, Petr Polshikov, 56, a senior Russian diplomat, was shot to death in his Moscow home, according to Moscow newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets.

On November 8, Sergei Krivov, 63, a Russian diplomat at the Russian Consulate in New York was found dead. Krivov served as duty commander involved with security affairs, according to Russian news reports.

Source: Al Arabiya