18/03/2014

Woman Arrested Over Fatal Apartment Fire In Co Cork

A woman, aged in her 20s, has been arrested in connection with a fire that killed two men in Mallow Co Cork last week.

A man and woman were rescued by gardaí from the apartment fire at Granary Court last Thursday but where overcome by smoke and unable to get in a second time.

The bodies of two men where found in the apartment by fire brigade officers wearing breathing apparatus.

Gardaí in Cork arrested a woman in the city centre on Monday afternoon in connection with the fire.

(MH)

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