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Several people killed in fire at Traveller site in Ireland Eight members of same family killed in fire at Traveller site in Ireland
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Several people are believed to have been killed in a fire at a Traveller site in Ireland, according to a police report. At least eight people including a young child are feared dead after a fire broke out at a Traveller site in County Dublin.
The Garda said it believed there were “a number of fatalities” after the blaze overnight in Carrickmines, south of Dublin. The people who died in the early hours of Saturday morning are believed to be three generations of one family who have been living on the site in Carrickmines, a South Dublin suburb, for 20 years.
Six fire crews and three ambulances are at the scene in Glenamuck Road South, according to Dublin fire brigade. Two adults and two children suffering from smoke inhalation have been taken to two hospitals in the Irish capital, after fire brigade units and ambulances were called to the scene in South Dublin around 4am.
A Garda spokesman said: “The emergency services have been at scene since approximately 4am this morning. There are believed to be a number of fatalities and two adults have also been taken to St Vincent’s and Tallaght hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation.” Early reports suggested that all eight feared dead were found in the same portable building close to a local sports club on the Glenamuck Road.
Dublin fire brigade tweeted that there were “a number of fatalities on scene” and that two adults and two children had been taken to hospital. Although there is nothing to suggest at this stage the blaze was a result of an arson attack, the Garda Technical Bureau has sealed off the scene for forensic examination as local people laid flowers on the road leading to the site.
More details follow.... Local Sinn Féin councillor, Chris Curran, said the family at the centre of the tragedy were “well known and well liked” in the area.
Meanwhile a Labour councillor for the area, Lettie McCarthy, said she feared one of the children injured in the fire played for the local De La Salle Palmerston rugby team.
McCarthy has been collecting clothes and food for the remaining members of the family, whose possessions were destroyed in the blaze.