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Palestinian envoy’s death ‘not accident’

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An explosion that killed the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was not an accident as the police claim, the daughter of the envoy says.

Ranal al-Jamal said in an interview with Czech newspaper Dnes on Saturday that her father Jamal al-Jamal did not die accidentally.

The ambassador was killed in a blast on January 1 after he opened a safe at his residence in Prague.

From her home in the West Bank, Ranal questioned the Czech authorities’ theory that the blast was caused by an inexperienced handling of explosives located in an ancient safe.

According to the ambassador’s daughter, the explosives were placed there by third parties during a recent move of the embassy, which was made by a local mover.

Czech police said on the same day of the blast that a device within the safe had gone off due to an ancient mechanism, which if opened wrongly the device detonated.

However, Ranal al-Jamal said in a separate interview published on January 3 by a Palestinian news agency that the explosion did not come from inside the safe but from below.

Ranal also said her father and other diplomats had opened the safe many times before without any problem.

Relations between Palestine and the Czech Republic have strained, as the latter was one of the few countries that voted against Palestine becoming an non-member observer state in the United Nations General Assembly in 2012.

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