Farmer dies in second Northern Ireland tractor accident

Two men have been arrested after a man died when the tractor he was travelling in was hit by a lorry.

The man who was killed has been named locally as Phelim Alexander Brady, 69, from the Caledon area of County Tyrone.

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The accident took place at a junction on the A4 dual-carriageway outside Dungannon at 10.20am on 25 June.

Mr Brady was not thought to have been driving the tractor at the time of the incident.

The driver was believed to have been a 43-year-old local man who was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. He was later arrested along with the lorry driver.

Mr Brady’s death was the second farming fatality in a 24-hour period.

An 81-year-old man was killed in a farm accident near Pomeroy, County Tyrone.

He was named as Barney McAleer, who had been handling big baled silage when he was struck by a tractor.

The Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland confirmed that it was investigating the accident.