A man died as he jumped from a balcony of a building to avoid arrest by police in the Töölönkatu area of Helsinki on Wednesday.
Police and eyewitness said the incident took place in the morning when patrol police rushed to the apartment of a building, hearing noise from its fifth floor where a man and a woman resided.
They said the patrol team at the same time received a piece of information that two men had fallen on the patio of the building.
One of them was already dead and the other was taken to hospital with critical injuries.
Police said the men first tried to hide from them in the balcony and then tried to move to another building by hanging on to the edge.
There is no suspicion of crime behind the falling.
