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Gardai release two men arrested after Co Monaghan crash in which best friends were killed

Hundreds of mourners attended the funerals of Kiea McCann and Dlava Mohamed.

School pupils Dlava Mohammed (16) and Kiea McCann (17) died in a crash in Co Monaghan on Monday evening.
School pupils Dlava Mohammed (16) and Kiea McCann (17) died in a crash in Co Monaghan on Monday evening.

Two men who were arrested after a crash in Co Monaghan in which two teenage best friends were killed on their way to a debs ball have been released.

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

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.

In a statement on Friday evening, gardai said two men (aged in their 60s and 40s) arrested that morning have since been released.

A file will now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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There has been a renewed focus by the Irish Government on road deaths this year since the Co Monaghan crash, and another fatal accident in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, in which four young people, including a brother and sister were killed.

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