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Finnish politician Eemeli Peltonen, 30, found dead in parliament after taking his own life

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A Finnish politician has been found dead after reportedly committing suicide in the country’s parliament, according to local reports.

Eemeli Peltonen, 30, a first-term member of parliament for the left-wing Social Democratic Party (SDP), had been suffering from a kidney disease and was on sick leave when he took his own life Tuesday morning inside Finland’s Parliament Building in the capital, Helsinki, Finnish outlet YLE reported.

Police were called to the parliament just after 11 a.m. Tuesday after reports that an MP had committed suicide inside the building, and Peltonen was identified later.The passing of Eemeli Peltonen deeply shocks me and all of us. He was a much-loved member of our community and we will miss him deeply,” chairwoman of the SDP parliamentary group Tytti Tuppurainen said in a statement on Tuesday.

“A young life has ended far too early. We share in the grief of the relatives and wish them strength in their time of mourning.”

The exact circumstances surrounding the young politician’s death have not been released.

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