KYIV, May 23 - Ukrainian police are investigating the death of lawmaker Valery Davydenko, who was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, said deputy interior minister Anton Herashchenko.

Davydenko, a former deputy agriculture minister, ran as an independent in last year's parliamentary election.

"The body of lawmaker Valeriy Davydenko was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head," Herashchenko wrote in a Facebook post, adding that police and prosecutors would investigate all possible reasons behind the death.