Police find eight illegal migrants in Tallinn apartment after man dies

Police found eight people staying illegally in Estonia in a Tallinn apartment where a 21-year-old Pakistani man was pronounced dead on Saturday. ERR reported that three of the eight were taken to hospital for medical checks and the other five to a detention centre.

Foreigners in the apartment called an ambulance for the man at about 4 p.m. Medics pronounced him dead. Police said they found no external signs of violence on his body.

According to preliminary information, the men arrived in Estonia from Latvia on Saturday. They told police that the vehicle transporting them had been in a crash in Latvia the previous night and had driven off the road.

Police are investigating how the men reached Estonia and the circumstances of the man’s death. His body was sent for an autopsy. Initial information indicated that the eight people were from Afghanistan, Morocco and Ethiopia.