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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll

Sister of Omagh bombing victim tells inquiry about ‘mind-blowing shock’

Paloma Abad Ramos
Paloma Abad Ramos recalled the moment she found out about her sister’s death one of the ‘most terrible moments’ of her life. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA

The sister of a 23-year-old Spanish visitor killed in the devastating Omagh bomb has said the public inquiry into the atrocity is allowing the family “to close a wound that has been open for 26 years”.

During the opening day of the resumed inquiry, Paloma Abad Ramos told of the “mind-blowing shock” she and her family felt in 1998 when they learned the youngest of three daughters, Rocio, had been caught up in a bomb in a foreign country.

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