A council has launched an investigation into the death of a man who fell from a bonfire built on its land.
John Steele was helping to construct the towering pyre in the Antiville estate in Larne, Co Antrim, when the incident happened on Saturday night. The bonfire, constructed from stacked wooden pallets, was more than 50ft tall.
It was located on land owned by Mid and East Antrim Council. The bonfire was one of around 250 that have been built in loyalist areas across Northern Ireland to usher in the main date in the Protestant loyal order parading season – the Twelfth of July.
