Woman dies in Donegal house fire

An elderly woman has died following a house fire in Co Donegal this morning.

An elderly woman has died following a house fire in Co Donegal this morning.

The fire is believed to have started following an electrical fault in a room at the rear of the property.

The alarm was raised at 3.35am when emergency services were called to the house at ‘The Cottage‘, Cockhill Road, Buncrana.

A Garda patrol car, two units of the local fire brigade and an ambulance attended the scene.

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The woman's body was discovered inside the property and pronounced dead on the scene at 4am. A Garda spokeswoman said the probable cause of death was smoke inhalation.

Her remains were later removed to Letterkenny General Hospital where a postmortem is due to be carried out later today.

The scene has been preserved pending a technical examination and gardaí are not treating the woman’s death as suspicious at this time.

Luke Cassidy

Luke Cassidy

Luke Cassidy is Digital Production Editor of The Irish Times