8/25/2005

Libya charge de affairs suicide in Sweden

The Libyan charge de affairs in Sweden was found dead in his apartment in Stockholm amid official Libyan confirmation that he had committed suicide.The Swedish police announced on Wednesday August 24 that it found the body of the Libyan charge de affairs Abdul Rahman Zanbila and expected that he died of committing suicide, adding that it broke into his apartment in the presence of the embassy's employees after a notification from them about reason his delay in coming to work.

In Tripoli, a source in the Libyan foreign ministry said that Zanbila was undergoing serious psychological problems that pushed him to commit suicide." It added that "the charge de affairs was found dead in a way that shows that he had strangled himself," stressing that the Swedish police will specify the reasons behind the death after completing investigation measures.For its part, the spokeswoman for the Swedish police Dina Sondin said that a criminal investigation was opened to this case, because wounds were found on his body.