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On the night of November 5th, 2024, at around 11 pm, the Operational Command Center of the Maputo City Police received a report about a dead body. The deceased was identified as Alexander Surikov, the Russian Ambassador to Mozambique.

Surikov's body was taken to the morgue at Maputo Central Hospital and placed in drawer number five. According to the police report, when the forensics team arrived at the morgue, they found the body had already been stored per instructions from Russian officials.

The Russian Consul in Maputo, Yuri Doroshenkov, was present at the morgue accompanied by a security officer from the embassy. Doroshenkov instructed the Mozambican police not to conduct any examination or autopsy on Surikov's body. However, the forensics team took photographs of the body while it was in the drawer, treating it as a case of sudden death from undetermined causes.

Additional information states that Alexander V. Surikov was born in 1956. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1978 and later obtained a PhD in Economics.

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