Car crash tourist dies in hospital; ACCIDENT.Byline: GERARD COUZENS THE Irish tourist knocked over as she left mass in Spain has died in hospital. Irene Montgomery, 62, died on Wednesday after being critically injured when a car reversed into her as she left the service in Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. It is located southeast of Tenerife and west of Fuerteventura. . Devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. husband Francis, from Boyle, Co Roscommon, was yesterday making arrangements to have her body flown home. Irene's friend Frances Malone, 64, suffered a broken foot and shock in the incident. A police spokesman said yesterday: "We are still investigating but everything at this stage appears to indicate this was an accident with a tragic outcome." |
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