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.
Man arrested in connection with body found in burnt out car in North Cork
The man, who is aged in his 60s, is currently detained at Fermoy Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 The scene near Drumdeer Wood, at Doneraile, Co Cork, where gardaí discovered the body of Mary O Keeffe on Thursday in a burning car. Picture Dan Linehan
Fri, 05 Feb, 2021 - 17:13
Neil Michael and Steven Heaney
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the unlawful killing of a woman found in a burnt-out car in Doneraile, North Cork on Thursday.
The man, who is aged in his 60s, is currently detained at Fermoy Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.