#Buncrana - Five people, including three children, understood to be from the same family are dead after their car slipped into the water at Buncrana, Co Donegal last night (Sunday 20 March).
As the News Letter reports, a major emergency operation was launched after the Northern Ireland-registered estate car went off a pier into Lough Swilly after 7pm.
The bodies of two adults and three primary-aged children were recovered shortly after.
A baby who was also in the car is believed to have been thrown or handed out of the vehicle before it went into the water.
The cause of the tragedy is not yet known but it's understood that the surface of the pier slipway may have been slippery with algae.
The News Letter has more on the story HERE.
