Investigation opens into Newry crash

An investigation is under way today after four men died and another was injured in a crash just outside Newry yesterday.

An investigation is under way today after four men died and another was injured in a crash just outside Newry yesterday.

A Republic-registered car and a lorry collided just before 5pm near a railway bridge on the Belfast-Dublin line three miles on the Tandragee side of the city.

The injured man has been taken to Daisy Hill hospital in Newry. The driver of the lorry is not thought to be seriously injured.

The PSNI believe the men in the car were foreign nationals, possibly Portuguese.

The route leads to Portadown in Co Armagh, and there is speculation the men may have been visiting relatives working in the area, where there is a sizeable Portuguese community.

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