The mayor of Inishowen, Sinn Féin’s Jack Murray, told BBC News NI the community is “devastated.”

“On what was such a happy day, Donegal won the Ulster Championship, the Sun was shining and then that filtered through, the worst news possible that these two young men have lost their lives, it is horrendous,” he said.

Paying tribute to the two teenagers, Murray said they were “of different nationalities from Africa, who were talented young boys”.

“It is just so sad that their lives could be cut short so tragically,” he said.

“This is a community that has been visited by tragedy far too often,” he added.

“I would like to think and hope that their families know that we are all thinking of them.”