Brazilian police suspect a body discovered inside a charred vehicle in Rio de Janeiro is Greece`s ambassador to Brazil who went missing three days ago, television channel Globo reported on Thursday, Reuters reports.

A police spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment.

Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was last seen Monday evening leaving the home of friends of his Brazilian wife in a poor and violent suburb of Rio`s metropolitan area, police had said earlier on Thursday.

A Rio state police official said the ambassador`s wife reported him as missing on Wednesday.

Globo showed images of the burned-out white car in the Nova Iguacu neighborhood where the ambassador went missing. The station reported that the license plates on the car matched those of Amiridis` rental vehicle.

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29/12/2016
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Rio de Janeiro police say they are investigating the disappearance of Greece`s ambassador to Brazil, the New York Times reports.

A statement from the police on Thursday says Kyriakos Amoiridis was last seen Monday night, though it didn`t say where.

Neither Greece`s Embassy in capital of Brasilia nor the Greek consulate in Rio replied to The Associated Press` request for information on the ambassador`s whereabouts.

According to the website of Greece`s Embassy, Amoiridis started his career as diplomat in 1985 in Athens and became Greece`s top diplomat in Brazil in 2016. He earlier was Greece`s ambassador to Libya and worked as consul in Rio.

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