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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Dan Haygarth

Tribute paid to 'massive LFC fan', 14, killed in Irish petrol station explosion

Tributes have been paid to a "massive LFC fan" who died after an explosion at an Irish petrol station.

Leona Harper, 14, was among the ten victims of the explosion at an Applegreen service station in the village of Creeslough, Co Donegal on Friday (August 7). Police are continuing to investigate the blast, which has also left a man in his 20s in a critical condition in a Dublin hospital.

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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