Quarry tragedy victims named

A man has drowned in a vain bid to rescue a teenage boy in a disused quarry in the North.

Quarry tragedy victims named

A man has drowned in a vain bid to rescue a teenage boy in a disused quarry in the North.

Colin Polland is understood to have jumped into the water at the isolated quarry in rural Co Down in a bid to save 15-year-old Kevin O’Hare, who had got into difficulties when swimming in the quarry, but both died.

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