Victims killed in Ireland petrol station blast named by police - including five-year-old girl
Ten victims killed in Ireland petrol station blast named by police - including little five-year-old girl.Speaking at a press conference earlier today, police named the victims as James O Flaherty, 48, Jessica Gallagher, 24, Martin McGill, 49, Catherine O Donnell, 39, and her son James Monaghan, 13, Hugh Kelly, 59, Martina Martin, 49, Robert Garwe, 50, and his daughter Shauna Flanagan Garwe, aged five, and 14-year-old Leona Harper.
The youngest victim, Shauna Flanagan Garwe, aged five, and her dad Robert Garwe, 50, had gone to the shop to buy her mum a birthday cake. 'The girls mother is absolutely devastated that she's lost her only child and her partner, Bob, who had been living in Africa before he came to Ireland and has two other children. This is only a small community, this has ripped the heart out of it.'Design student Jessica Gallagher, 23, had only just moved back to her hometown of Creeslough after living in Paris.
Her boyfriend was one of eight causalities airlifted to hospital on Friday night, and was being treated for severe burns. Locals formed a human chain to remove debris as they could hear cries for help from beneath the rubble.
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