Car bomb killed 29 people in deadliest atrocity of Northern Ireland’s Troubles

The British government will hold an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Northern Ireland secretary has announced.

Chris Heaton-Harris told the House of Commons on Thursday that he intended to establish an inquiry into the atrocity that claimed 29 lives and injured 220 people on 15 August 1998, four months after the Good Friday agreement.

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