Cookstown incident: Three teenagers dead after 'stampede' at St Patrick's Day party mirror.co.uk

Three teenagers were killed and others hurt after 'crush' during a 'stampede' at a St Patrick's Day youth party. Two of the victims – a girl and a boy – were aged 17 years old and another was a 16-year-old male. Dozens of young people were caught up in panic outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, Northern Ireland late last night. Witnesses described how onlookers desperately tried to perform CPR as those injured lay on the floor. Speaking from the scene, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said: "Our preliminary investigations show there was a crush towards the front door of this hotel.