An 18-year-old man has been found dead and another man (18) seriously injured in a house in Tralee, Co Kerry.
Gardaí from Tralee Garda Station are investigating the teenager's death but say they believe it was not suspicious.
It is believed a gas leak from a heater in the early hours of this morning was responsible for the incident. The two men were students from the Institute of Technology, in Tralee. A third man in the rented house on Racecourse Road, who was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, escaped unharmed.
The alarm was raised this morning when a friend called to the house.
A postmortem will be carried out later today to establish the cause of death, and the scene is being preserved for examination.
The injured man was taken to Tralee General Hospital where he remains in intensive care. A Garda spokesman had no further detail on his injuries.