Drug smuggler's body to be returned to Estonia
Arrangements are being made to return home the body of an Estonian teenage drug smuggler.
Maksim Gorbov died in a Limerick hospital after attempting to smuggle a kilo of cocaine inside his body on a flight from Peru to the Netherlands at the weekend.
Gardai said they had contacted the family of the 19-year-old.
The KLM Dutch airline flight on which he was a passenger was diverted to Shannon airport, in Co Clare, on Saturday after he became ill, and he died in hospital yesterday.
A postmortem examination indicated he had swallowed 94 capsules of cocaine paste, regarded as a strong and toxic form of the drug.
Doctors in the Midwestern Regional Hospital recovered 25 of the capsules.
Gardai believe the drugs may have been destined for the market in Spain.
