What happened

A catastrophic explosion destroyed the Applegreen filling station in Creeslough, County Donegal, along with its attached shop/post office and an adjoining residential building. Ten people were killed, including three children, and eight others were injured. The exact initiating cause remained under investigation in the cited reporting, but this is treated as a probable accident, not an attack.

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