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Irish army received warning day before Omagh bomb, inquiry told
Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died when the bomb tore through Omagh town centre in the summer of 1998
The Omagh Bombing Inquiry has heard that an Irish army camp received a warning that the town was to be the target of a bomb the day before the fatal explosion.
It was revealed during evidence from the journalist John Ware who has reported extensively on the bombing.
He told the hearing that a warning call was received on 14 August 1998 at Finner Camp near Ballyshannon, County Donegal.
"The caller wasn't drunk, sounded sensible and said, get onto the guards, tell them to check the back routes or back roads and then repeats three times: Omagh, Omagh, Omagh."
This warning call has not previously been reported.
"It would appear that a warning that something was going to happen imminently to the town of Omagh was received on the 14th August by An Garda Síochána (Irish police force).
Ware said the information about the call was given to him by the counsel for the bombing Inquiry in preparation for giving evidence.
He said the existence of such a call made sense of a situation that had "puzzled" him.
That the information from his source saying there was a warning, did not fit in with an "emphatic" denial that one existed in a report carried out by Sir Peter Gibson.