Parents hugged their children as hundreds gathered for a vigil in memory of the 10 people who died in the petrol station explosion in Ireland.
People also carried candles at the vigil which was held in the town of Milford, around a half an hour’s drive from Cleeslough where the disaster happened on Friday.
Prayers were said and music was played, including a song called Creeslough, written and played by a local musician.
The crowd sang the Irish language hymn A Mhuire Mhathair (Mother Mary) at the end of the vigil.
Hot drinks and biscuits were handed out afterwards, as people gathered to process the news in the aftermath of the tragedy.
It was one of 20 vigils that were organised across County Donegal yesterday.
In the town of Castlefinn, local cleric Ciaran Hegarty led a moment of prayer before those gathered held a two-minute silence.
Musician Marian Harper-Coleman played the song Cutting The Corn In Creeslough on the button accordion.
The vigils have taken place after it emerged the youngest victim was buying her mum a birthday cake in the petrol station shop at the time of the blast.
Shauna Flanagan Garwe was killed alongside her father Robert Garwe, 50.
Catherine O’Donnell, 39, and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan were also among the dead in what has been described as a “freak accident”.
In a news conference yesterday, police said the other six victims were James O’Flaherty, 48, Jessica Gallagher, 24, Martin McGill, 49, Hugh Kelly, 59, Martina Martin, 49, and 14-year-old Leona Harper.
One of the first funerals confirmed will take place on Wednesday – for Mr O’Flaherty in St Mary’s Church in Derrybeg.
A man in his 20s is in a critical condition in hospital in Dublin after the explosion, while seven other people are being treated at Letterkenny University Hospital and are described as being in a stable condition.
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