{"id":1997,"date":"2026-02-06T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1997\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:09:11","slug":"tallinn-helsinki-ferry-fatality-being-investigated-as-murder-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallinn-Helsinki ferry fatality being investigated as murder | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish police are investigating a possible homicide after a person fell from the vehicle deck of a Tallinn-Helsinki ferry, Delfi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.ee\/artikkel\/120429267\/tallinn-helsingi-liinil-soitnud-laeval-toimus-onnetus-uks-inimene-sai-viga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses quoted by Finnish paper Iltalehti said an &#8220;accident&#8221; happened on the vehicle deck of the Tallinn-Helsinki Viking XPRS, and that a person died after falling from that deck. The police are investigating the case as a homicide, Iltalehti added.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel had reportedly arrived in the Katajanokka terminal port in Helsinki at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, while a first responder vehicle was seen arriving around 20 minutes later, and firefighters, an ambulance, and police were later visible on the ship&#8217;s ramp, after vehicles had already disembarked from the vessel at the<\/p>\n<p>A Viking XPRS spokesperson meanwhile stated one person was injured in an accident near the exit of the ship&#8217;s car deck.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule information on Viking Line&#8217;s website shows the Viking XPRS was due to depart Tallinn at 5:30 p.m. and arrive at Helsinki&#8217;s Katajanokka port at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Finnish media reported that due to the accident, the vessel&#8217;s return departure from the Katajanokka port to Tallinn was delayed by about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Follow ERR News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ERRNews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/errnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and never miss an update!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finnish police are investigating a possible homicide after a person fell from the vehicle deck of a Tallinn-Helsinki&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[89],"tags":[2014,167,2360,2358,166,2361,2357,2359],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallinn","tag-crime","tag-estonia","tag-homicide","tag-murder","tag-tallinn","tag-tallinn-helsinki-ferries","tag-viking-line","tag-viking-xprs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}