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Petrol station explosion kills 10 in Ireland

The blast occurred at around 3:20 pm (1520 GMT) on Friday in the County Donegal village of Creeslough, Ireland's police, the Garda Siochana, said in a media conference Saturday. "There are 10 fatalities as a result of that explosion.

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Many emergency services vehicles remained at the scene overnight, including fire services from both sides of the border with British-run Northern Ireland. Gardai and civil defence were also involved, and a coastguard helicopter airlifted some of the injured from Letterkenny University Hospital to the capital Dublin.