Four people die in fire at Limerick undertakers

Four people have died following a fire at an undertaker’s in Lower Gerald Griffin Street in Limerick City.

The fire began in the coffin shop and quickly engulfed the three-storey building. The dead have been named as Mr. and Mrs. John Griffin, Mrs. Margaret Butler and Mr. John Hall. Mrs. Griffin had jumped through a second-storey window to escape the inferno but died later in hospital.

Four other people who were in the building managed to escape the fire, which was later quenched by the Fire Brigade.