Shipping|The ship was in the port of Tallinn at the time of the incident.
Passenger had a seizure on the Tallink ship the night before Sunday and died later.
Tallink’s Victoria 1 ship had already arrived from Helsinki to the port of Tallinn when the man had a seizure. The ship is scheduled to return to Helsinki on Sunday afternoon.
Communications director of Tallink Grupp Katri Link confirm what happened.
“This is a very sad case.”
The dead passenger was a Finnish man born in 1981.
The illness occurred at half past five on Sunday morning in the ship’s disco, where the man fell to the ground. The ship’s crew tried to revive the man.
According to Link, the ambulance arrived in less than 25 minutes. The man died before he could be taken to the hospital.
Case is very rare according to Link.
“It is not unusual for a passenger to need first aid, but it is for a passenger to die.”
The ship had an Electric Carneval cruise on the weekend, where electronic music performers played until six in the morning.
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