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Omagh bombing inquiry identifies 27 linked suspects

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  • The Omagh bombing inquiry identified 27 individuals linked to the 1998 attack.
  • Twenty-nine people, including a pregnant woman, died in the Real IRA bombing on 15 August 1998.
  • The bombing occurred less than three months after Northern Ireland voters approved the Good Friday Agreement.
  • The inquiry opened last year, hearing 14 days of testimony and data analyst Mark Safranauskas’s video evidence and maps.