Detectives are keeping a vigil by the bedside of a knife victim whose mother was stabbed to death.
Nicola McDonough, 23, was fighting for her life last night in the hospital where her mother, Margaret, 52, died earlier yesterday.
Both women were discovered with knife wounds at a hotel where they had booked into a double room for one night.
Detectives were last night unable to say whether or not they had been the victims of an attacker.
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The first indication of the horror came at 7am yesterday when hotel guests found the younger woman slumped unconscious in the corridor outside her room.
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Detectives are pursuing several lines of inquiry, which include trying to establish if the women inflicted the wounds on themselves or on each other.
Family members have been informed, and a relative told police that they were in a state of shock and utterly baffled by the horrific incident. The dead woman is understood to also be the mother of several sons.
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