Homes flooded as storm pump fails

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Exceptional rainfall has seen two properties in Warrenpoint, County Down, flooded, NI Water has said.

Two homes in Charlotte Street were flooded when a storm pump failed. The water has been pumped out and a clean up has been completed.

Earlier, the Fire and Rescue Service laid sandbags at some houses in the town. There have been reports of flooding in Cranfield, near Rostrevor.

The A26 Larne Road Link at Pennybridge in Ballymena has closed due to floods.

It is not likely to be re-opened until 1000 BST on Wednesday.

Earlier three teenage girls were rescued after heavy rains left them stranded in the Mourne Mountains in County Down.

The girls, aged between 15 and 17, were forced from their campsite by torrential rain at about 0445 BST on Tuesday.

Aaron Moore sent in this shot of a drainpipe and trellis that came down in the heavy rain at Ballynahinch

They then found their way down was blocked by a swollen river.

"It would have been quite dangerous," said Ed Kilgore from the Mourne Rescue Team, which led the girls to safety.

The girls were picked up by relatives at the bottom of the Mournes.

Five people had to be rescued after their cars were trapped in floodwater.

It happened on the Glenavy Road in Moira following a night of heavy rain across Northern Ireland.