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The staff at the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain are mourn­ing the loss of a naval of­fi­cer, who re­port­ed­ly died by sui­cide on Thurs­day night.

While the iden­ti­ty of the of­fi­cer as well as the cir­cum­stances re­mained un­known up to yes­ter­day, se­nior lo­cal po­lice of­fi­cials said they were aware of an in­ci­dent at an apart­ment in St Clair.

The in­ci­dent re­port­ed­ly oc­curred on US soil in T&T and ac­cord­ing to the prin­ci­ple of in­ter­na­tion­al law, diplo­mat­ic im­mu­ni­ty grants for­eign diplo­mats le­gal pro­tec­tion from the ju­ris­dic­tion of the host coun­try.