Russian mayor found dead in hotel room in southern Turkey

KEMER – Doğan News Agency

Alexey Pantyushkin, the mayor of a Russian town, has been found dead in a hotel room in Turkey’s Mediterranean province of Antalya.

Pantyushkin, the 46-year-old mayor of Vyshny Volochyok, a town in Russia’s federal province of Tver about 300 km northwest of Moscow, was found dead early July 22 in his hotel room in Antalya’s resort town of Kemer. 

Pantyushkin was found by health and security personnel in a hotel in Kemer’s Kiriş neighborhood where he had been vacationing, after his relatives and friends informed the police, as well as the hotel administration, that he was missing. 

The dead body of Pantyushkin was taken to the Antalya Forensic Institution for medical examination and to be later sent to Russia.

The reason of Pantyushkin’s death will be released after the medical examination of his body.