Disagreements are being reported among the family of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, who has died in Spain aged 79.
According to Spanish news agency Efe, it began when the former leader was admitted to a clinic in Barcelona last month.
Part of the family suspects he may have been the victim of a conspiracy to try to kill him and prevent him from giving his support to the opposition in elections next month, it reports.
One of his daughters, Tchizé dos Santos, has asked the clinic where he died, to keep his body in Spain for a full autopsy rather than it being returned directly to Angola, the Reuters news agency quotes her lawyer Carmen Varela as saying.
The clinic declined to comment, it reports.
Angolan President João Lourenço has declared five days of national mourning, describing his predecessor as a "unique figure of the Angolan homeland, to which he dedicated himself from a very early age".
When Dos Santos stood down in 2017, Mr Lourenço moved to investigate the former leader's family over allegations of corruption.
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