According to the BBC, has a 17-year-old girl, a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy died after a st. Patrick’s day celebration at a hotel in Cookstown in northern Ireland.

Several additional teenagers have been admitted to the hospital as a result of the event. The BBC also reports that a large number of young people was on site at the hotel while waiting to get into a disco. In connection with this congestion have occurred.

“the Investigation is at an early stage, and while the exact cause of the incident is still unknown, so there are data on congestion on the site and early indications that a large group of young people waiting to get in to a disco,” says Mark Hamilton at the police to the BBC.

emergency services were called to the scene at 21.30 o’clock on Sunday local time. An hour later, in a facebookinlägg, called the police parents to immediately pick up their children at the hotel.

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“It is devastating to an event that was supposed to be fun for the youngsters at the S:t Patrick’s-the evening would end in such a horrible tragedy,” says Mark Hamilton to the BBC.

Nigel Ruddell at Northern ireland ambulansservice say to the channel:

” Everything indicates that there is a tragic accident.