Two men in their fifties were arrested on Friday in the northwest of Ireland in the investigation into the explosion at a gas station which left ten people dead, including a five-year-old child, in 2022. the police announced.
According to the
Irish Times
newspaper , the investigations do not relate to a deliberate act, but rather to the way in which the service station was
“managed and maintained”
.
Four men, three women, two teenagers and a five-year-old girl were killed in the explosion, which occurred on October 7, 2022 in the village of Creeslough, 400 inhabitants, in County Donegal, around 50 kilometers from the border. with the British province of Northern Ireland.
Two two-story apartment buildings behind the gas station collapsed, while the facade of another building was blown away by the explosion, compared by witnesses to that of a bomb.
The Prime Minister at the time, Micheal Martin, spoke of a
“very dark day”
for the region and all of Ireland, stressing that
“almost everyone”
locally knew the victims.