"Much loved" Finnish politician Eemeli Peltonen, 30, was found dead of suicide Tuesday in the parliament building in Helsinki, according to local media.

A politician in Finland has died in the country's main parliament building in the capital, Helsinki. Eemeli Peltonen, 30, who was an MP for the Social Democratic Party, is believed to have taken his own life in the building and was found on Tuesday morning, local media reported.

A young Finnish MP has died inside the national parliament in a case that has devastated the Nordic state’s political class.