A car slipped off Buncrana pier into the water in Donegal on Sunday night, killing five people, including three children.
An investigation has been launched into the tragedy after two adults and three children lost their lives. A young baby was rescued.
Shortly after 7pm on Sunday night a large vehicle, registered in Northern Ireland, slipped off Buncrana jetty and into Lough Swilly.
The alarm was raised and a local man was able to save the small baby, but a man, a woman and three children could not be rescued.
No details have been released yet but there are indications that there is a Derry link to the tragedy, and Gardaí have been working with their counterparts in the PSNI.
“Buncrana and south Inishowen has suffered grievously from road traffic accidents over the years and many people have lost their lives, so it was just a sense of shock that here we are again,” Sinn Féin TD for Donegal North-East, Padraig MacLochlainn, told Morning Ireland.
“As the hours moved on it became clear that this was a very serious tragedy, particularly where children lose their lives.
“And then as the circumstances [became clearer] probably just a family having a day off in the good weather. When that became clear to people, I think we were all in horror.”
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