Omagh bomb victims’ names read aloud as public inquiry reopens

Inquiry chair says evidence will make clear the devastating and lasting impact' of Real IRA attack in August 1998

The sister of a 23-year-old Spanish visitor killed in the devastating Omagh bomb has said the public inquiry into the atrocity is allowing the family to close a wound that has been open for 26 years".

During the opening day of the resumed inquiry, Paloma Abad Ramos told of the mind-blowing shock" she and her family felt in 1998 when they learned the youngest of three daughters, Rocio, had been caught up in a bomb in a foreign country.