Gardaí in Mullingar say they are investigating all of the possible circumstances after the deaths of an infant and a child in a fatal car fire in Westmeath on Friday, September 9, 2022.
Emergency services and gardai rushed to the scene at around 4 pm on Friday, after the alarm was raised that a car with three occupants was on fire on a rural road at Lackan near Multyfarnham.
An infant boy was removed from the scene by ambulance to Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar where he was later pronounced dead.