File image of Lough Keel in Co Donegal
Credit: Mac McCarron/Geograph
RTÉ News reports that the bodies of a father and son have been recovered from Lough Keel in Co Donegal.
A major search and rescue operation was launched yesterday afternoon (Thursday 18 June) after a report that two people were missing on the lough near Kilmacrenan, north of Letterkenny.
A teenage boy was rescued from the lough and was as of last night receiving treatment, but the bodies of a man in his 50s and his teenage son were recovered in the evening.
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