Five teenagers killed after car driven on wrong side of Irish motorway

Head-on collision between two vehicles on M9 in County Kildare also injured four other people, say police

Five teenagers have died and four other people have been seriously injured in a crash involving a car driving in the wrong direction on a motorway in the Republic of Ireland, police said.

Gardaí confirmed the bodies of the youths, all male, had been removed from the scene of the two-vehicle collision, which happened at about 3am on Sunday on the M9 in County Kildare.