Hundreds gather in Strabane vigil for three killed in Co Tyrone collision

Three people died in the minivan-lorry collision near Aughnacloy; four others were hospitalized.

In the small town of Strabane, hundreds gathered at the Grotto on a Thursday evening to hold candlelight for three of their neighbours — Dan McKane, Christine McKane, and Julia McSorley — who had died that morning when a minivan and a lorry met violently on the A5 near Aughnacloy. Grief, as it so often does, drew people out of their homes and into the streets, not yet with answers, but with the older human instinct to stand together in the dark. The loss has now set in motion a familiar reckoning: whether the road itself bears some share of the blame, and whether the living will act before the

Hundreds gather in Strabane vigil for three killed in Co Tyrone collision

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