Young child dies at rural farmhouse in Northern Ireland and a woman and child suffer serious injuries in ‘domestic’ incident
- Police are ‘treating the case at a rural farmhouse in Larne as a domestic incident’
- Local media reports suggest that a family of four live in the rented farmhouse
- A resident said a family, mother and husband and two children live there
Police are investigating after a young child died and another child and a woman were seriously injured in an incident at a house near Larne, sources have said.
It is understood that police are treating the case at a rural farmhouse on the outskirts of the Co Antrim town as a domestic incident.
Police said the investigation is at an ‘early stage’ and that they aren’t looking for ‘anyone else in connection with the death.’
Reports in Northern Ireland said that the woman, the mother of the children aged in her 30s, is being treated at the scene for a ‘knife injury’.
Locals said a family have been renting the farmhouse for a year or so.
Forensic officers at the scene of a major incident at a farmhouse in Bankhall Road, Larne
Police in Bankhall Road, Larne at the scene of a major incident at a farmhouse in County Antrim
Two children, one aged one-and-a-half and another ‘not much older’ according to a neighbour, live at the property as part of the ‘family of four’.
She said the children are ‘beautiful and very young’.
‘I’ve spoken to the man once, but they generally keep themselves to themselves,’ she added.
Another woman who said she knows the family who live at the property at the end of a country lane overlooking Larne Lough, said the mother of the family is a nurse.
She described the news as ‘shocking’. ‘You just wouldn’t believe it,’ she told the Belfast Telegraph.
A major police and emergency services operation has centred on the property throughout Monday.
Police and forensics officers are at the scene.
The scene, in the hamlet of Magheramorne, five miles from Larne, remained cordoned off on Monday afternoon and officers in forensics suits were spotted
Police have released few details, only confirming officers and emergency services are dealing with an ‘incident’
The scene, in the hamlet of Magheramorne, five miles from Larne, remained cordoned off on Monday afternoon.
Police have released few details, only confirming officers and emergency services are dealing with an ‘incident’.
Another resident told the Belfast Telegraph that emergency services arrived in the rural area at around 10 am today and that those from the area are ‘taken aback’ by the size of the emergency services operation.
Police set up a checkpoint to the entrance to a property in Bankhall Road, Larne
Sources have said a young child has died and another child and a woman have sustained serious injuries
Neighbours were alerted to the scene upon hearing an Air Ambulance and PSNI helicopter.
One person has been airlifted to Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, reports suggest.
Reacting to the news, Alliance Party MLA for East Antrim Stewart Dickson called the situation ‘profoundly sad’ and added that his ‘thoughts are with all concerned and the close knit community as they come to terms with the trauma.’
Neighbours were alerted to the scene upon hearing an Air Ambulance and PSNI helicopter