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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

Five teenagers killed after car driven on wrong side of Irish motorway

Emergency vehicles including a police van and car are parked around the wreckage of a damaged car partly covered by a red sheet on the side of a motorway
Emergency services at the scene of the collision, which happened at junction 3 of the motorway near Athy. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Five teenagers have died and four other people have been seriously injured in a crash involving a car driving in the wrong direction on a motorway in the Republic of Ireland, police said.

Gardaí confirmed the bodies of the youths, all male, had been removed from the scene of the two-vehicle collision, which happened at about 3am on Sunday on the M9 in County Kildare.

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