UK · 12 July 2026
Warren Lyttle dies after fall from east Belfast bonfire
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Forty-year-old Warren Lyttle passed away on Saturday, a day after he sustained fatal injuries from a fall from the bonfire on an Eleventh Night in east Belfast on Friday evening. The incident is under police investigation, and notification has been sent to the Northern Ireland's Health and Safety Executive. Lyttle's family asked for the bonfire to be lit as planned, with a minute's silence held in his memory.
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