Woman dies

A WOMAN in her early 50s died on Sunday after taking ill in Lurgan’s North Street.

It’s understood the driver of a car took ill and there was an accident.

A woman was taken to hospital where she later died.

She was named locally as Peggy McKenna from Carrigart.

A spokesperson for the PSNI said: “There was a fatality but they are not treating it as a fatal road traffic collision and a crime is not suspected.”

The incident happened soon after Cemetery Sunday in St Colman’s Graveyard.

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