Northern Ireland marks Omagh bomb anniversary

Monday marks the 24th anniversary of the Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland.

The explosion in 1998 killed 29 people - including nine children and a woman with unborn twins - and injured over 100.

A Real IRA splinter group issued coded warnings 35 minutes beforehand but for the wrong location. People were evacuated from one end of Omagh high street to the other where the 500lb device went off at 15:05.

It was the worst atrocity of The Troubles.

No one stands criminally convicted over the bombing although four men were found liable and ordered in 2009 to pay £1.5m to victims' relatives.

Colm Murphy was found guilty of the crime but his conviction was overturned in 2010; Sean Hoey was acquitted in 2007; while criminal charges against Seamus Daly were dropped in 2016.

In July a High Court judge in Belfast found there was a 'real prospect' the attack could have been prevented; the UK and Irish Governments were urged to conduct investigations.

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