Irish boy, 5, dies in quad bike accident

A five-year-old Irish boy has died and his brother is seriously ill following a quad bike accident in Portugal, local media reported.

Irish boy, 5, dies in quad bike accident

A six-year-old Portuguese boy also died in the crash in a quiet street in the town of Casal Novo in the Coimbra region, in the northern half of the country at 5.30pm Irish time on Friday.

It is understood that the two Irish boys and the Portuguese boy, named as Martim Antunes, were on the quad bike and were not wearing helmets while it was being driven by a British man, aged 50.

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