Cookstown hotel deaths: Witness recalls horror
Police said a large group of young people had been waiting to get into the disco
Lauren Bullock, 17, Connor Currie, 16, and Morgan Barnard, 17, died after reports of a crush outside the Greenvale Hotel on Sunday night.Eimear Tallon recalled the horror in a Facebook post on Monday:Then the literal crushing started. At this point I thought my friends were going to die, I was standing up and I couldn't breathe so I couldn't imagine how they felt.I was hysterically screaming for people to move but it was only the people around me who knew the seriousness.But the thing about me was that I wasn't on the ground, I was on top of someone, and this person was on top of someone else.
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