Finland - Mother and three children, found killed in house fire, Savonlinna, 6 December 2025.

[bimminglemur]

YLE: The police investigate the suspected family death in the Savonlinnan fire scene: a 22-year-old man is suspected of killing his two children and a young woman 8.12.2025
IltaSanomat: Suspected: a 22-year-old father killed a mother and three children in Savonlinnas - his actions in the interrogation room 8.12.2025
Helsinki Times: Man suspected of killing partner and three children in Savonlinna fire 8.12.2025

Rescue services received a call about a house fire around 8 in the morning of Finland’s Independence Day. When fire rescue arrived on site the house was already fully engulfed, and there was nothing to do to save the building.

A woman (20 years old) and her three children (3 year old twins and 1 year old) were registered at the address, and according to info from Yle they had been living there for only two months.

According to witnesses the fire spread quickly in the house. There are also witnesses who told police they heard a man yelling [angrily] and a woman screaming for help.

Police in Southeastern Finland suspect a 22 year old man of the killing of the mother and her children, and destruction of property. The suspect is the father of the children.

According to Helsinki Times the suspect has a long criminal record of previous crimes:

• Conviction from earlier in 2025 of assault of the woman who died in the fire. The conviction handled cases of assaults happening in 2022 and 2023 of him hitting the victim in the face and once trying to drag her forcefully into a car.
• Driving without a licence and endangering traffic safety. He was convicted of these in the same proceedings.
• Convicted in 2023 for raping a 14 year old girl and for aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Offences occurred in 2019 when he was 16 years old.
• 2020 he received a suspended sentence for robbery, assault, unlawful threats and concealing stolen property.

 

[Sarahlou]

There's a lot to unpack there. Why was he even free to allegedly do this?!
Those poor kids and their mum though

 

[Rikissa]

From the local newspaper Itä-Savo, translated into English:

Tällainen rikostausta tulipalon sytyttämisestä epäillyllä miehellä on – Esitetään vangittavaksi

Nuoren naisen perhe on aloittanut keräyksen hautajaiskuluja varten.

www-ita--savo-fi.translate.goog

There is an interview with the dead woman's father.