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A part time fire officer has told the Omagh bomb inquiry when he arrived at the scene of the atrocity it was like something from the Vietnam war, it was a "horror show," he said.
A former newsagent in Omagh, Co Tyrone, has told how the “world stood still” in the moments after a massive car bomb devastated the town centre in 1998. Giving evidence to the Omagh Bombing ...
The Omagh bombing Inquiry heard that Lorraine Wilson was working in an Oxfam shop in the Co Tyrone town on the day of the Real IRA attack, which killed 31 people, including unborn twins.
By Jonathan McCambridge, PA A man has told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry how he found his wife lying face down in rubble in the aftermath of the massacre. Kevin Skelton told the hearing that he could ...
The Omagh Bombing Inquiry heard that 15-year-old Lorraine Wilson had been working in an Oxfam shop on the day she died in 1998 and had wanted to buy her school uniform out of her own wages.
The chair of the Omagh bomb inquiry contrasted the actions of the teenager, just 17 when she was killed in the blast while volunteering at a charity shop, with those responsible for the 1998 attack.
Elizabeth Rush worked at a shop in Omagh After her mother's death, she told the inquiry her father sought answers on why his wife had been killed but was "met with a wall of silence".
Mrs Rush was working in her shop when she was killed in the blast on August 15, 1998 at the age of 57. Originally from Killyclogher on the outskirts of Omagh, she met Laurence Rush at a dance when ...
A shop owner and mother who was killed in the Omagh bomb blast has been described as “the moral compass” of her family, a public inquiry heard. The widower of Elizabeth “Lbbi” Rush had ...
A shop owner and mother who was killed in the Omagh bomb blast has been described as “the moral compass” of her family, a public inquiry heard. The widower of Elizabeth “Lbbi” Rush had ...