The 1998 attack in Co Tyrone left 29 people dead and injured hundreds more, with a judge in 2021 ordering the government to lead a 'human-rights compliant' investigation into the bombing.
The 1998 attack in Co Tyrone left 29 people dead and injured hundreds more, with a judge in 2021 ordering the government to lead a"human-rights compliant" investigation into the bombing.An independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing has been ordered by the Northern Ireland secretary.
It comes after a High Court judge recommended in 2021 that the government should carry out a human rights-compliant investigation into alleged security failings in the attack's build-up. Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden died in the bombing by the Real IRA, brought the legal action and said it should look at intelligence failures in the lead-up to the attack."We believe that there was serious security and intelligence failings and I personally believe that Omagh was a preventable atrocity, had the right action been taken in the lead-up to Omagh."
The attack took place on 15 August 1998, when a bomb exploded in the Co Tyrone town, killing 29 people and injuring hundreds more. Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, visited Omagh at the end of last year, to meet some of the bereaved families and visit the site of the bombing and a nearby memorial garden.
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