‘Several dead, children among injured’ as blaze hits traveller site

Several people are feared to have been killed in a fire at a traveller site south of Dublin. The deaths were reported after six fire crews and three ambulances went to the scene near the M50 at Carrickmines in the early hours of Saturday morning. A Garda spokesman said: “The emergency services have been at scene since approximately 4am. There are believed to be a number of fatalities and two adults have also been taken to St Vincents and Tallaght Hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation." 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. It added that one person had been rescued by firefighters using breathing apparatus.

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