In the single deadliest event of the Troubles, 29 people were killed by a car bomb in Northern Ireland’s County Tyrone on 15 August 1998.
The Omagh bombing inquiry has started, more than 26 years after a bomb ripped through a busy street in a Northern Irish town, killing 29 people and injuring more than 200 others.
The deadliest single attack during the Troubles took place in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 15 August 1998, four months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement brought hopes of an end to more than three decades of sectarian violence.
A woman pregnant with twins was among the victims, as were nine children, including a baby.
The car bombing was claimed by the Real IRA (RIRA), a dissident republican group who thought that the Provisional IRA was wrong to agree to a ceasefire.
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