Du Wei: Chinese ambassador to Israel discovered dead at home

Du Wei in Ukraine

China's Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, has been discovered dead in his loft north of Tel Aviv, an Israeli authority disclosed to BBC News.


The authority said Israeli police had propelled an examination yet beginning discoveries recommended no injustice.

Mr Du, 57, was just delegated ambassador in February having recently filled in as agent to Ukraine.

The ambassador was hitched and had a child however his family had still to go along with him in Israel.

He was living in Herzliya, some 10km north of Tel Aviv.

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An Israeli police representative revealed to Reuters news office: "As a feature of the standard procedure, police units are at the scene."

Israel's Channel 12 TV, citing anonymous clinical sources, said introductory signs were that Mr Du had kicked the bucket in his rest of normal causes.

There was no quick remark on Mr Du's passing from Chinese authorities.

In a message distributed on the international safe haven's site soon after his arrangement as ambassador, Mr Du lauded the relations between "the second biggest economy on the planet and Israel the beginning up country".

Self-separation on appearance

At the point when he showed up in Israel on 15 February, Mr Du had quickly to self-detach for about fourteen days as a result of coronavirus limitations.

In a meeting with Israeli paper Makor Rishon a month ago, Mr Du said China was being made the world's substitute.

"Ever, more than once, a specific gathering of individuals was blamed for spreading pandemics," he said.

"That is wretched and ought to be denounced. The infection is an adversary of the whole mankind and the world should battle it together."

On Friday, his consulate made a searing assault on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who had reprimanded China's treatment of the coronavirus pandemic on a visit to Israel.

In a reaction distributed in the Jerusalem Post, the consulate denounced Mr Pompeo's "preposterous remarks", denying that China had ever concealed the emergency.

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