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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Mark Wakefield

Everton captain Seamus Coleman sends condolences to victims of County Donegal petrol station explosion

Everton captain Seamus Coleman has paid tribute to the 10 people who lost their lives after an explosion in his home country.

An explosion at an Applegreen service station in the village of Creeslough, Co Donegal on Friday killed 10 people. One of the victims was Liverpool fan Leona Harper, 14, while a man in his 20s is in a critical condition in a Dublin hospital.

Police are continuing to investigate the blast. The ten people killed in the explosion have been named by police as 48-year-old James O’Flaherty, 24-year-old Jessica Gallagher, 49-year-old Martin McGill, 39-year-old Catherine O’Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan, 59-year-old Hugh Kelly, 49-year-old Martina Martin, 50-year-old Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan Garwe, and 14-year-old Leona Harper.

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