A DISTRAUGHT local community gathered in sadness last night for the removal of the remains of the mother and daughter who lost their lives in a harrowing flash flood tragedy in West Cork last week.

Post mortems will be held today for a mother and her young daughter whose bodies were recovered from a heavily-flooded Cork river.

A 33-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter have died after the car they were travelling in was swept away by a flash flood in Co Cork yesterday afternoon.

THE residents of a rural idyll near Bantry, County Cork, were last night struggling to come to terms with the horrific drowning yesterday of a mother in her thirties and her three-year-old daughter.

A MOTHER and her young daughter were drowned yesterday when their jeep was washed off a bridge into a flooded river at the entrance to their west Cork farm as they were returning home from a children’s party.

The search for a mother and her young daughter ended tonight when their bodies were discovered one mile from where their car plunged into a heavily flooded Cork river.