A man fired shots and set off a smoke bomb at the Defence Ministry in Estonia's capital Tallinn then was killed as police moved in, officials said on Thursday. The prosecutor's office said in a statement that a man with a gun broke into the Defence Ministry building in the centre of Tallinn.
He threw a smoke bomb at the building and took two hostages who managed to get away. Police surrounded the building and then detained the man. A spokeswoman for the prosecutors office said that the suspect then shot himself.