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| Eight killed in Donegal car crash | Eight killed in Donegal car crash |
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| Eight people have been killed in a car crash in County Donegal. | |
| The two-car collision happened on the Drumfree to Buncrana Road at 2230 BST on Sunday. | The two-car collision happened on the Drumfree to Buncrana Road at 2230 BST on Sunday. |
| One person survived the crash and is in Letterkenny Hospital. It is understood a car was in collision with another car, but no-one was injured. | One person survived the crash and is in Letterkenny Hospital. It is understood a car was in collision with another car, but no-one was injured. |
| There was then a second crash a few hundred yards down the road. Eight people were killed. | There was then a second crash a few hundred yards down the road. Eight people were killed. |
| Sinn Fein councillor, Padraig MacLochlainn said he understood seven people died in one car and the driver of the second car was also killed. | |
| Mr MacLochlainn said seven of the victims were in their late teens and early 20s. The driver of the other car was aged in his 60s. | |
| He said he understood the victims were from Buncrana, Clonmany and Fahan. | |
| The road remains closed and traffic diversions are in place. | The road remains closed and traffic diversions are in place. |
| Donegal senator Cecelia Keaveney said this was "an ordeal" for all of the families involved. | |
| "Because of the close-knit community it affects very, very many people in Inishowen particularly," she said. | |
| Ms Keaveney said she believed many of the victims were local people. | |
| "We have had so many fatalities on the roads over the past decades, for many families, this will reawaken the difficulties they faced," she said. | |
| "The immediate concern is for the families, but it will reawaken histories for many people as well." |