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IRA man charged in Omagh bombing

CRAIGAVON (NORTHERN IRELAND): Prosecutors charged an alleged Irish Republican Army dissident with 29 counts of murder on Thursday in connection with Northern Ireland's deadliest terror attack, the 1998 car-bombing of Omagh. Sean Hoey, a 35-year-old electrician, became the first person to be charged with murdering the 29 victims. They were killed by a car bomb that detonated on August 15, 1998, amid a crowd of shoppers, shop workers and tourists. More than 300 others were wounded. Hoey has been behind bars since September 2003 awaiting trial for more than a dozen counts of involvement in several 1998 car-bomb attacks committed by the dissident Real IRA faction. But prosecutors piled about 60 more charges on Hoey, including the 29 murder counts, after his arrival under at Craigavon Crown Court, Belfast. — AP

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