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Portadown murder: Police given more time to question man

Police investigating the death of a man in Portadown have been given more time to question a man arrested on suspicion of murder. Rolandas Kvederis, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency services attended a property in Ranfurley Road on Thursday night. Police received a report at about 23:00 GMT that a man was injured following an altercation at the property in the County Armagh town. Two men in their 50s were later arrested on suspicion of murder. On Sunday detectives were given more time to question one of the men, the other was released unconditionally Police are still appealing for anyone with information to contact them. Portadown DUP councillor Kyle Moutray previously told BBC News NI the murder came as a "huge shock" to everyone in the area. "This is a tragedy," he said, adding that it's "a close knit community". "We're in close proximity to a primary school. There's a lot of elderly people here, a lot of younger families. They've obviously been very unnerved by this news." Two separate shootings in Coleraine are being treated as attempted murder by the PSNI. Protesters have remained on the Garvaghy Road since last Sunday as the fallout over the proposed Porta

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