Gas leak suspected as student found dead

AN 18-year-old student died yesterday and his life-long friend, also 18, is in intensive care, following what is believed to have been a gas leak in a house in Tralee, Co Kerry.

Patrick Hughes, of Lower Aughrim, Moyvane, Listowel, Co Kerry, was found dead in a downstairs sitting room in the rented house, at 14 Racecourse Road, Tralee, whilst James Fitzgerald, also from Moyvane, was last night said to be in a stable condition at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee.

A third man, who was sleeping upstairs in the detached house, was not injured, but was in a state of shock yesterday. He had gone to bed and the others remained in the sitting room watching television.