A seventy-five-year-old woman died after being engulfed in a horrific fireball after gardaí fear a large container of flammable liquid exploded in a friend s car.
The revelation came as a 62-year-old man, who was rescued from a nearby river, was being questioned by detectives in a Cork garda station on suspicion of the unlawful killing of grandmother and mother-of-three Mary O Keeffe.
Central to the garda investigation is how the car fire started - and Mrs O Keeffe s cause of death.
One garda source said the SUV owner has insisted the tragic fire was accidental and may have been triggered by a cigarette.
GARDAÍ believe bones found next to an old Cork railway line, wrapped in cloth with a small piece of religious jewellery are female and more recent than initially suspected.
Detectives are now awaiting the results of pathology and forensic anthropology tests to determine if the remains are female rather than male. They also want to find out if the remains date to a time period over the last five to 25 years.
It was initially suspected the remains were historic, dating back to the early 20th Century and those of an adult male, possibly linked to the War of Independence.
A painstaking excavation of the site at Roxborough off the old Midleton-Youghal rail line has yielded multiple bones, with a skull initially discovered on Tuesday evening by workmen converting the railway into a new €19.8m greenway.
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The tragic incident occurred on the R336 near Furbo on Wednesday
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