Mother killed near Clifden centre for asylum seekers named as garda probe continues

Gardaí attended the scene near an International Protection Accommodation Service (Ipas) centre on Galway Road in Clifden. Picture: Conor McKeown

Gardaí are continuing to interview a man in connection with a fatal knife attack on a mother in Co Galway.

The woman, named as Masuma Sohrabi, aged 31 and from Iran, was resident at an IPAS asylum accommodation in Clifden. She had two children, who attended Scoil Mhuire primary school in the coastal town.