Brothers suspected of setting couple alight severely burned

FOUR brothers suspected of dousing with petrol and setting alight a couple in Armagh were being treated for severe burns in a Dublin hospital yesterday.

Three of the four brothers were in critical condition in St James Hospital burns unit last night after being transferred from Louth County Hospital. They presented themselves to doctors originally on Monday night, an hour after the Armagh fire.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it was standard practice, given the intensity of the fire, for officers to check hospitals for people who had been admitted with burns.