The British government will hold an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh car bombing, the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, has announced. The atrocity killed 29 people and injured 220 on 15 August 1998, four months after the Good Friday agreement. The inquiry announcement follows a high court judge’s recommendation in 2021 that the government should carry out a human rights-compliant investigation into alleged security failings before the bombing in the County Tyrone market town
