On January 13, the Red Cross Hospital was also taking in wounded from the TV tower.

The employees say it felt like a military field hospital that night. Emergency sirens were howling ceaselessly, wounded people were crowding in narrow corridors, blood, soil, cries and wailing were mixed together.

The medics say they hadn’t seen such violence before. They worked all night, many came in to work on their day off, as all operating rooms and wards were filled.

Some lethally wounded people were brought to this hospital, too, including a Soviet soldier who is thought to have been accidentally shot by his fellow men while storming the Radio and Television Committee building.

People at the hospital immediately organised an investigation of the case so that it wouldn’t be later used against Lithuania.