Lithuania recorded 37,005 deaths in 2023, the lowest figure in the past 13 years, the Institute of Hygiene said Monday. A year before, a total of 42,884 people died in the country.
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A worker has died in a shipbuilding company in Klaipėda. Based on preliminary information, the accident happened when an explosion occurred while welding.
On Thursday morning, 10 October, a lawyer was shot to death in Vilnius city centre and two police officers were wounded.
A rally car hit a crowd in Utena on Friday, killing a 21-year-old man and injuring 14 others, the police said.
A Lithuanian woman has died in Poland after being found unconscious in the Tatra Mountains and taken to hospital. Three Lithuanian women were hiking in the Tatras and reportedly got lost on the night from Friday to Saturday.
While it is scientifically proven that excessive table salt consumption is harmful to health, the claim circulating on the Internet that salt will cause one billion deaths by 2030 is neither accurate nor justified.
Former prime minister Gediminas Kirkilas, who passed away suddenly on 20 April aged 72, was laid to rest in Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius on Wednesday.
On Tuesday in Vilnius, politicians gathered to pay respects to former MP Gediminas Kirkilas, who passed away unexpectedly on 20 April aged 72.
Lithuania’s anti-Soviet figure, dissident nun Nijolė Sadūnaitė has died aged 85, Bernardinai.lt news website said Sunday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has summoned the chargé d’affaires ad interim of Belarus and handed a diplomatic note expressing strong protest over the death of a Lithuanian citizen who was detained in Belarus last December and has died since in custody, possibly because medical aid wa...
One of the most prominent Lithuanian theatre directors Rimas Tuminas passed away on 6 March 2024 aged 72.
A Lithuanian soldier Tadas Tumas called ‘Milžinas’ (Giant) was killed in Ukraine on Friday, 15min.lt news website reports.
A second body was retrieved from the burnt out block of flats in Vilnius on Wednesday. On 2 January, several explosions and a fire occurred in the residential building where gas is used for cooking.
A Lithuanian tourist has died in Madeira, after being swept into the sea by a wave from a pontoon in Ponta Delgada on Sunday, the Portugal Resident reports.
Figures from Lithuania's electronic health services system show that the country's coronavirus death count is higher by 153 cases than officially reported by the country's statistics office that receives its information from the National Public Health Center (NPHC).
Famous Lithuanian poet Kestutis Navakas died on Sunday at the age of 55.
Lithuanian theater and movie actor Remigijus Sabulis has died at the age of 65, his colleague Arunas Sakalauskas announced on Facebook on Monday.
The number of deaths from drug overdose in Europe has risen for the third year in a row and Lithuania is among five European nations that recorded a considerable increase in fatal overdoses, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) said in a report published this week.
