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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shane Harrison

Omagh bombing inquiry chair vows to work ‘rigorously and fearlessly’

Police officers and firefighters inspecting the damage after the 15 August 1998 bombing
Police officers and firefighters inspecting the damage after the 15 August 1998 bombing. Photograph: Paul McErlane/PA

The chair of the public inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing by the Real IRA, the single worst atrocity in Northern Ireland’s Troubles, has said on its first day that its task would be undertaken “rigorously and fearlessly”.

Twenty-nine people including a woman expecting twins were killed in the dissident republican attack and more than 200 were injured.

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