PSNI say initial enquiries indicate a large group of people were waiting to enter a disco
, speaking from the scene, said: “Our preliminary investigations show there was a crush towards the front door of this hotel, and in that crush people seem to have fallen.
Mr Hamilton confirmed the three teenagers who died were a 17-year-old girl, a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy. “People then seem to have fallen and then got crushed. I would urge you to use that with some caution. Certainly it appears to be at the minute a crush, people have fallen and then been fatally injured.
An ambulance at the scene of the Greenvale Hotel, Cookstown, after a fatal crushing incident on St Patrick’s Day night. Photograph: BBCPolice posted on Twitter shortly after the incident, urging parents to pick up their children from the venue in Drum Road.
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