Irish children die in Swedish road crash

AN Irish family were involved in an horrific crash in Sweden yesterday which left two of their children dead and another in a critical condition.

Swedish police were last night attempting to trace relatives of the Irish couple who were travelling with their five children near Stockholm when their Mitsubishi people carrier was involved in a collision with a lorry.

The names of the dead a two-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy were not released by Swedish authorities.