Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit killed himself hours after being fired by President Vladimir Putin, state investigators said Monday.

Starovoit was found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound.

“The circumstances of the incident are being established. The main version is suicide,” Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, said in a statement.

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