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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Omagh bombing: independent inquiry announced into 1998 attack

The British government is to hold an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing, the single deadliest atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

Chris Heaton-Harris told the House of Commons on Thursday that he intended to establish an inquiry into the attack that claimed 29 lives and injured hundreds in the County Tyrone market town on 15 August 1998.

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