Man arrested in Creeslough explosion investigation released without charge
The investigation into the explosion, which ripped through the service station and an adjacent apartment block, is being co-ordinated from Milford Garda station, where an incident room is in operation.
A man arrested by gardaí investigating an explosion at a service station in Co Donegal in which 10 people died has been released without charge.
Four men, three women and three young people, their ages ranging from five to 59, died in the blast on the afternoon of Friday October 7, 2022, in the village of Creeslough.
The man aged in his 60s was arrested on Friday for alleged offences contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997.
He had been held at a garda station in the north-western region.
Gardaí said he has been released without charge and a file would now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The investigation into the explosion, which ripped through the service station and an adjacent apartment block, is being co-ordinated from Milford Garda station, where an incident room is in operation.
The inquiry is being led by local gardaí, supported by a number of different agencies, including the Health and Safety Authority and the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities.
The 10 victims were Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan-Garwe; Catherine O’Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan; fashion student Jessica Gallagher; Celtic fan Martin McGill; James O’Flaherty from Sydney, Australia; shop worker Martina Martin; carpenter Hugh “Hughie” Kelly, and 14-year-old Leona Harper.
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