Civil suit filed in Omagh bombing
Relatives of victims killed in Northern Ireland’s deadliest attack launched a civil action in Belfast against five people they believe were behind the 1998 Omagh bombing.
Families of those killed had reacted with outrage in December when a judge criticized the police investigation into the attack and acquitted a man of the murders of 29 people.
The only person so far jailed in connection with the attack, bar owner Colm Murphy from the Irish Republic, had his conviction quashed by a Dublin court in 2005. He faces a retrial.
The Real IRA, a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army, carried out the attack.
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