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Anastasia Smirnova & Milo Boyd

Man, 29, and his wife 'found dead in their bed by son, 5, after taking drugs'

A magazine editor and his wife were found dead in bed by their young son after reportedly taking drugs.

Aleksander Rai, the founder and editor-in-chief of weekly digital magazine 'T-Zh', was found dead in the flat he shared with his family in the Russian capital Moscow.

The couple's five-year-old son called his grandmother after failing to wake his parents up, local media reported.

The boy was getting hungry and his nan reportedly popped over to check on things.

Rai and his wife, who has not been named in local reports, were then found by her dead in their bed.

It is believed Alexander Rai died after taking some kind of drug (CEN)

It is believed they were killed by intoxication, although the local authorities have yet to confirm which substance caused the deaths.

Police did confirm that there were no signs of violence on the victims' bodies.

Russian news site 'click-or-die.ru' quoted a source who said the he cause of deaths was an overdose of potent drugs.

Rai launched the 'T-Zh' magazine five years ago after changing its format from a standard blog to a full-scale newsletter magazine.

The 29-year-old edited T-ZH magazine (CEN/@lxndrr)

Staff members hailed Rai as a talented leader and posted tributes to their former editor-in-chief on the magazine's social media pages.

One message said: "Today, we learned that Aleksander passed away.

"This is a man who created 'T-Zh' five years ago and quickly expanded it from a banking blog into the product you read today.

"The whole team is in mourning."

The team exclusively confirmed to Central European News (CEN) that the autopsy findings will be made public, but did not specify when this will happen.

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