Seven killed in Ireland petrol station blast
Seven people are now confirmed to have died after a huge explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal, Ireland.
A search operation is continuing as a number of people are still missing, BBC reports.
Eight people were also taken to hospital.
The explosion happened at an Applegreen service station in the village of Creeslough on October 7 afternoon.
Gardaí (Irish police) said three fatalities were confirmed on October 7 and four were confirmed overnight.
The blast destroyed the building and a section of an apartment building.
Many emergency services vehicles remained at the scene overnight, including fire services from sides of the border, gardaí (Irish police) and civil defence, while a coastguard helicopter airlifted some of those who were injured in the blast from Letterkenny University Hospital to Dublin.
The cause of the explosion is still not known, but police are working on the theory it was perhaps a gas explosion.
Locals say it happened at a time when the shop would have been busy because local schools had just finished for the day.
It will be a major operation throughout the course of the day to try and find out if there are any more survivors here, or indeed if anyone else has lost their life.
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