A man has died and a second has been injured following a stabbing at an International Protection Accommodation Services centre in Co Kerry in the early hours of his morning.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the scene at Ballymullen Barracks, in Tralee, shortly after 5.20am.<\/p>\n
A man was discovered with serious injuries and pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n
Another man, who is in his 40s, was injured and was taken to University Hospital Kerry.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n
A man in his late 40s was arrested at the scene and is being held at a garda station in Kerry.<\/p>\n
The scene has been sealed off and the Office of the State Pathologist has been notified.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for any witnesses, or anyone with information, to contact Tralee Garda Station on 066 7102300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n
In 2024, the former barracks was designated to house 50 single male international protection applicants.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration said it is responding to the “critical incident” at the centre, but could not comment further as a garda investigation is under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died and a second has been injured following a stabbing at an International Protection Accommodation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-670899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}