Other refugees onboard say Albanian national Leonard Farruku appeared to be in distress before he died

The asylum seeker who died in a suspected suicide on the Bibby Stockholm barge last week has been named as Leonard Farruku.

Farruku, 27, an Albanian national, was first named in reports in the Telegraph. Several asylum seekers onboard the barge, which is moored in Portland, Dorset, told the Guardian the man had appeared to be in a state of distress shortly before he died, shouting and banging on the wall of his cabin.

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