Young child dies at rural farmhouse in Northern Ireland and a woman and child suffer serious injuries in ‘domestic’ incident
A young child has died and another child and a woman have been seriously injured in an incident at a house near Larne, sources have said.
The PA news agency understands police are treating the case at a rural farmhouse on the outskirts of the Co Antrim town as a domestic incident.
Local reports suggest that a family live in the farmhouse, which has been sealed off by police, and have done for a year or so.
A major police and emergency services operation has centred on the property throughout Monday.
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’.
One woman who knows the family who live at the farmhouse 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.
Another resident told the publication that emergency services arrived in the rural area at around 10 am today and that residents are ‘taken aback’ by the size of the emergency services operation.
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.