President Putin sacked his transport minister. Hours later, his body was found in a park with a gunshot wound to the head.

It was a dramatic start to the week in Russia.

On Monday morning, Vladimir Putin sacked his transport minister, Roman Starovoit.

By the afternoon Starovoit was dead; his body was discovered in a park on the edge of Moscow with a gunshot wound to the head. A pistol, allegedly, beside the body.

Investigators said they presumed the former minister had taken his own life.