Teenage plumber dies in house blaze

GARDA forensic experts are trying to establish the cause of a blaze which claimed the life of an 18-year-old apprentice plumber.

Mark Hutchinson, of Crossogue, Bantry, Co Cork, was removed from an upstairs room in a two storey terraced house in Cork City shortly after 4.30am yesterday morning by a local fire brigade unit.

He was rushed to Cork University Hospital suffering from acute smoke inhalation, but later died.