A young woman from Lanarkshire has been confirmed to have passed away alongside four others following a tragic crash in the Republic of Ireland.

Chloe Hipson, 21, from Bellshill , died in the incident which happened on Ardee Road on the L3168 in the townland of Gibstown in Dundalk, County Louth.

Emergency services raced to the scene after the alarm was raised shortly after 9pm on Saturday, November 15.

Gardaí, Irish police, confirmed that five occupants of a Volkswagen Golf - three men and two women - were killed in the collision.

Officers have since confirmed that one of the victims was Ms Hipson, reports the Daily Record . The crash involved the Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Land Cruiser.

Chloe and the four others who died, as well as one other man in his early 20s, were in the

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