01-03-2016 19:21 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Northern Ireland murder case over 1998 Omagh bombing collapses

By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Northern Ireland withdrew their case on Tuesday against a man they believed was responsible for 29 murders in the 1998 Omagh bombing - the worst attack in decades of violence in the province. On August 15, 1998, a car bomb exploded on a busy shopping street in the town just months after a peace deal to end sectarian violence, provoking domestic and international outrage. The Public Prosecution Service announced in court that charges against Seamus
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