Three Irish people have been killed in an accident in Cape Town, South Africa.
The Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday would only confirm that there was an accident in which three people were killed and that they were providing consular services.
Two men and a woman lost their lives in the accident. One of the men and the woman were believed to have been visiting and were understood to have come from Sutton, Co Dublin. The other man is believed to have lived in South Africa but was of Irish origin.
The names of the victims have not yet been released.
A report from Cape Town said that late on Monday night in the Boland area of the city three adults, two of them described as foreigners, were killed and two children injured when the hired car they were driving collided with a truck on the Bonnievale/Robert- son road.
The accident happened when the driver of the hired car was struck by an approaching truck.
The three adults - two men and a woman - were killed instantly. One of the two children had been transferred to Cape Town's Tygerberg Hospital with serious head and arm injuries while the other child had been discharged.
In Dublin, meanwhile, gardaí have appealed for witnesses to an accident in the city yesterday morning in which a pedal cyclist was fatally injured in a collision with a truck.
The dead man was named yesterday evening as Mr Frank Duggan (52), from Templeogue.
The collision occurred at the junction of Kimmage Road West and Whitehall Road at about 7.45 a.m. Witnesses are asked to telephone Crumlin Garda station at 6666200.