Efforts made to return teen's body home

Arrangements are being made tonight to return home the body of an Estonian teenage drug smuggler.

Maksim Gorbov died in hospital after attempting to smuggle a kilo of cocaine inside his body on a flight from Peru to the Netherlands.

The KLM Dutch Airline flight was diverted to Shannon airport, on Saturday after he became ill. He died in hospital yesterday.

A post-mortem examination indicated that Gorbov had swallowed 94 capsules of cocaine paste, which is regarded as a strong and toxic form of the drug.

Doctors recovered 25 of them and gardaí believe the drugs may have been destined for the market in Spain.

The young man's family has been contacted and arrangements are underway to send his body home to Estonia.