The victims - four men, three women, a teenage boy and girl and a younger girl - were from the village or surrounding areas.

Gardaí are continuing to examine the scene which remains cordoned off to the public.

This will continue over the next couple of days.

Traffic diversions on the N56 at the scene of the incident remain in place.

The Taoiseach and Tanaíste (deputy Prime Minister) have met firefighters, health workers and patients in Letterkenny.

Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar spent about ninety minutes at Letterkenny University Hospital. They then went to the headquarters of Donegal County Fire Brigade close by.

Garda Supt Liam Geraghty said: "It is a huge impact to a small rural community.

"They are all local people, they are all very much involved in the community. They were all people who were shopping in their local shop.

“We have very, very young children – the schools are going to be impacted, local GAA clubs are going to be impacted, the local church and general community is going to be severely impacted by this incident.

"But it is very strong community as we saw here on Friday afternoon with the response of family, friends and neighbours who came to people’s rescue so I'm sure the community will come together and will support each other.”

• One man in 20s remains in a 'critical condition' in a Dublin hospital and the seven other surviving casualties are in a stable condition at Letterkenny University Hospital.

Gardaí have identified all ten people who died in Friday's explosion.

They were Catherine O'Donnell, 39, and her 14-year-old son James Monaghan; Robert Garwe, 50, and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan Garwe; 14-year-old Leona Harper; Jessica Gallagher, 24; James O'Flaherty, 48; Martin McGill, 49; Martina Martin, 49, and 59-year-old Hugh Kelly.

Ireland's Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, has thanked healthcare workers for their response to the tragedy in Creeslough, including those from Northern Ireland.

A Mass service at St Michael’s Church in Cresslough has been told that the people “are living through a nightmare”.

Bishop Alan Guckian said it was an “experience we are living through together” and one where the community must keep those killed, injured and those who helped attend the tragic scene in their thoughts and prayers.

The bishop said “anybody could have been caught up in” the tragedy.

“Why did they have to be there at that awful moment?," he said.

Charlotte Gallagher
BBC News

Our correspondent in Creeslough says the local community including the GAA club and businesses are helping out "all they can" following the petrol station explosion.

She said a woman who lives next to the service station and whose windows have been blown out following the blast has been offering them refreshments.

Speaking on the Sunday Sequence programme, Bishop of Raphoe Alan McGuckian paid tribute to the emergency services who responded to the explosion.

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He said: “[They] had jobs to do that were extraordinarily harrowing and difficult.

“We all saw them going beyond themselves, stepping out of themselves and conducting themselves with dignity and decency. That was just amazing."

Capuchin Brother Philip Baxter of Ards Friary in Creeslough has been reflecting on the church service that followed Friday's tragic events.

He said: "There was a Mass yesterday morning and, again, the chapel was absolutely packed and it was the first time the community had come together and what I noticed was the silence.

"There was a numbness to the silence, but it wasn't only the numbness; it was people reaching again to that inner place of silence," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence programme.

Michael McBride
BBC News NI

It's hard not be struck by the eerie quiet that still hangs over this picturesque, rural Irish village this morning.

A police cordon remains at the site of the Applegreen petrol station, now reduced to rubble.

The rain is lashing down here and the skies overhead are a dark, unrelenting grey.

Shattered glass from nearby houses still litters the streets near the devastated site.

The filling station, which acted as a shop; post office and deli was described by one resident as once the “very centre of daily life” here in Cresslough.

Among the devastation 10 lives were tragically cut short here.

Ten people who were friends, neighbours, loved ones - simply going about their daily routines.

Tributes are being paid to the 10 victims of the huge explosion in the village of Creeslough.

The victims - four men, three women, a teenage boy and girl and a younger girl - were from the village or surrounding areas, according to the police.

Many people have been attending Mass in the village this morning.

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The taoiseach (Irish PM) was among several senior politicians to attend a vigil Mass in Creeslough on Saturday evening.

Ten candles were lit at St Michael's Church by Bishop Alan McGuckian to represent the lives lost in the explosion.

Northern Ireland politicians Michelle O'Neill from Sinn Féin and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood also attended.

Kevin Sharkey
BBC News NI

This community is now focusing on the families, to support and comfort those who are grieving for the loss of 10 people - seven adults, two secondary school children and a primary school child.

The community here is also waiting for more news about the eight people who’ve been injured, including one who is in a critical condition in a Dublin hospital.

As Creeslough carries this heavy burden of sorrow, it’s been finding comfort in messages of solidarity from far beyond this community, including the Irish diaspora around the world.

Today, the names of those who died will emerge, and reinforce the scale of this human tragedy and it’s personal impact on so many families in this sparsely-populated rural community in Donegal.

As you join us this morning this is the latest:

• Ten people are dead after an explosion at a petrol station in the village of Creeslough on Friday.
• Four men, three women, a teenage boy and girl and a younger girl were killed.

• Gardaí (Irish police) said the victims were from the village or surrounding areas.
• They are treating the explosion as a "tragic accident".
• Several senior politicians - including Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and NI politicians attended a vigil Mass at St Michael's Church in Creeslough on Saturday evening.

Hello and welcome to our coverage of events following a huge explosion at a petrol station in the village of Cresslough, County Donegal.

Ten people are dead, eight have been hospitalised.

Stay with us for updates throughout the day.

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