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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
By Grinne N. Aodha

Teenage volunteer killed in Omagh bomb ‘a wonderful girl with a kind heart’

Samantha McFarland (Omagh Bombing Inquiry) - (PA Media)

The chair of the Omagh bomb inquiry has contrasted the actions of a teenage girl killed in the blast as she was volunteering at a charity shop with those responsible for the 1998 attack.

Samantha McFarland, 17, from Omagh, was described as “popular, diligent and a person who passed with flying colours the test of life”.

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