Gardaí have opened a double murder investigation after a young boy and his great-aunt were killed in a suspected petrol bomb attack on a house in Co Offaly.
The murder victims were named locally last night as Tadhg Farrell (4) and Mary Holt (60).
Another women, who is in her 50s, was in critical condition in hospital having suffered extensive burns in the blaze at Castleview Park, Edenderry. It is understood she is Ms Holt’s sister and the deceased boy’s grandmother.
Gardaí believe a petrol bomb or similar was thrown into the house on Castleview Park in the town
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