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Eemeli Peltonen, a member of the Social Democratic Party, died in the country’s Parliament House in Helsinki on Tuesday.
Parliament’s communications office confirmed his death, though authorities have not released details, while local media reported it as a suicide.
Parliament’s security chief Aaro Toivonen told Finnish daily Iltalehti that emergency services, rescue units and police were alerted after the incident. He said, "A death took place in the morning."
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, speaking at his party’s summer meeting in Kajaani, described the news as "truly shocking," adding that "one of our colleagues has died on the parliamentary premises. This is very sad news."
In a statement, parliament’s work community said it shared in the grief of Peltonen’s family.
Peltonen, 33, was serving his first term in parliament. In June, he wrote on Facebook that he was struggling with health problems, including a kidney condition, which had kept him away from parliamentary duties during the spring and summer.
His death has prompted widespread condolences across Finland’s political spectrum, with fellow lawmakers expressing sorrow at the loss of a young colleague.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Vietnam's most devastating storm this year brought heavy rains that triggered floods across its north, disrupting flights and train services with the capital, Hanoi, where schools were closed and many homes inundated, authorities said on Tuesday.
Türkiye has joined Spain, Italy and Greece in monitoring an international flotilla carrying aid for Gaza that was sailing east across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday despite warnings from Israel to stop the mission, flight data show.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponents appeared to make little progress at a White House meeting aimed at heading off a government shutdown that could disrupt a wide range of services as soon as Wednesday.
Indonesian rescuers were racing on Tuesday to find 38 people feared trapped beneath the rubble of an Islamic boarding school that collapsed in East Java during afternoon prayers, killing three, according to disaster officials.
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