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Files being prepared for DPP over crash that killed teenage girls

Kiea McCann, aged 17, and Dlava Mohamed, aged 16, died when the car they were travelling in left the road and crashed into a tree
Kiea McCann, aged 17, and Dlava Mohamed, aged 16, died when the car they were travelling in left the road and crashed into a tree

Two people arrested in connection with a fatal collision in Co Monaghan last July in which two teenage girls died have been released and files are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Kiea McCann, aged 17, and Dlava Mohamed, aged 16, died when the car they were travelling in left the road and crashed into a tree just outside Clones on 31 July.

The two girls were on their way to the Largy College debs ball in the Westenra Arms Hotel in Monaghan town.

Hundreds attended the funerals of the students, who had been close friends since Dlava's family arrived in Clones as part of a resettlement programme for Syrians.

Gardaí at the scene of the crash at Legnakelly, Co Monaghan, on the day after the crash

Friends and classmates of the girls, who were described as "soul friends", provided a guard of honour at the funeral services in Monaghan and Dublin in August.

Two men, aged in their 60s and 40s, were arrested this morning as part of the investigation into the incident.

They were detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at a garda station in Co Monaghan.

Investigations are ongoing and further updates will follow, gardaí said.