The death toll from the Cresslough explosion could have been twice as high if the blast had happened five minutes earlier, a doctor has said.
Village GP Dr Paul Stewart said a group of schoolchildren had been sitting on a wall of the service station and convenience store just before it was buried by falling rubble.
A five-year-old girl and her father, who were buying a birthday cake, were among 10 people killed in the devastating explosion in Co Donegal on Friday afternoon.
