India, Sept. 30 -- Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa, the ambassador of South Africa to France reportedly "plunged to his death from the 22nd floor" of a hotel in Paris. 'Nathi' was his well-known nickname.

The Paris prosecutor's office stated that the officials found the 58-year-old diplomat's body on Tuesday "right above the Hyatt Hotel" at Porte Maillot.

The prosecutor's office also noted that Mthethwa's wife reported him missing yesterday, suggesting that she "received a worrying message from him in the evening."

Mthethwa's phone was last located on Monday at around 3 pm near the Bois de Boulogne in western Paris, as per French media.

After his wife alerted the police, officers and canine teams searched a neighboring forested area in f...