20/10/2004

Two found dead in NI registered car in RoI

Two people have been found dead in a Northern Ireland registered car in the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday.

The bodies of the man and woman, believed to be in their late 30s and early 20s respectively, were discovered in a Fermanagh-registered car at a farmer in Glenfarne Woods, about seven miles east of Manorhamilton in Co Leitrum.

A post-mortem examination has been carried out and their deaths are not being treated as suspicious.

There are no further details at present.

(MB/GMCG)

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