Mukul Arya, India's envoy to Palestine, found dead; Jaishankar expresses deep shock
Zee News
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the Indian ambassador died at his workplace in Ramallah.
New Delhi: Mukul Arya, India's representative at the Palestinian city of Ramallah, was on Sunday (March 7) found dead inside the Indian embassy in Palestine.
It was not immediately known how Arya, a 2008-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, died. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the Indian ambassador died at his workplace in Ramallah. They have established contacts with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to complete the arrangements for transporting the body to India.
"As soon as this painful news arrived, immediate instructions were issued from President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh to all the security, police and public authorities, in addition to the Ministry of Health and Forensic Medicine, to immediately move to the place of residence of the Indian ambassador to closely monitor the case of death," the Palestinian foreign ministry said in a statement.
It further added that "all parties are fully prepared to do what is required of them in such difficult and emergency circumstances."
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reacted to the sudden death and expressed his deep shock.
