India, Sept. 30 -- Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa, the South African ambassador to France, died at 58 allegedly after a fall from a hotel's 22nd floor.

WhileNkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa was reported missingyesterday, his corpse was discovered earlier todayat the Paris Hyatt Hotel. According to the prosecutor's office in Paris, the 58-year-old's wife reported him missing after indicating that she "received a worrying message from him in the evening," The Mirror reported. However, he was later founddead just abovethe Hayat Hotel. "He had booked a room on the 22nd floor, whose secure window was forced open."

Police dispatched canine brigade canines to the Bois de Boulogne, a Parisian park and botanical garden where Mthethwa's phone last rang...