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The police will more thoroughly check gun owners following several murders linked to domestic violence.

A Brazilian citizen suspected of a Lithuanian tourist's murder has been detained at the crime scene, Rasa Jakilaitiene, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told BNS on Friday.

The prosecution is seeking life sentences for three young men standing trial for the murder of a young woman in 2017, Prosecutor Gintas Ivanauskas told reporters on Thursday.

With the tragedy in Kėdainiai district, some Lithuanians are now asking how the Norwegian child welfare service, Barnevernet, would have responded to such an incident and what Lithuania could learn from Norway’s approach.

Having suggested to set up a new institution to deal with children in at-risk families, President Dalia Grybauskaitė retracted her words, insisting her proposal was rather to institute additional functions that could be carried out by existing bodies.

A psychiatric examination of the suspect in the investigation of a tragic double homicide in Kėdainiai district has been ordered as forensic experts presented their findings. A father is suspected of having thrown his two kids into a well.

After a tragedy in Kėdainiai District when a father killed his two children by throwing them into a well, the government will consider giving more power to the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told LRT radio.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius ordered the Ministry of Social Security and Labour to carry out an investigation whether there was a proper control over the actions regarding families at risk, what measures have been taken to put an end to domestic violence, after the tragic events in Saviečiai ...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė said not only the state but society as well had to take care of children growing up in dysfunctional families after the tragic events in Saviečiai village in Kėdainiai district when a 36-year-old father killed his two children by throwing them into a well.

After a tragic incident of domestic violence that left two children dead in central Lithuania, the government is setting up a commission to look into what should have been done to prevent it.

After a quadruple murder in the town of Kražiai, western Lithuania, where a man stabbed four women to death, Lithuanian politicians point fingers at excessive alcohol consumption as the culprit.

Lithuania's police have offered their assistance to Swedish counterparts investigating the murder case of a Swedish teenager, in which two Lithuanian citizens are named as suspects.