CHILDREN FIGHT FOR LIFE AS LIST OF INJURIES UNFOLDS
Children fight for life as list of injuries unfold
By Kathryn Torney
TERROR TOLL
28 DEAD
9 CRITICAL
2 VERY SERIOUSLY ILL
92 IN HOSPITAL
NINE people, including two children and a 75-year-old woman, remain in a critical condition in hospitals throughout the province today following the Omagh bomb.
In total 92 people are in hospital after being injured in the bomb which tore the heart out of the market town on Saturday, killing 28.
In the Royal Victoria Hospital three children are still in hospital, two of them in a critical condition.
Five women and one man are also in a critical condition with 10 other women and four men remaining in hospital.
In Belfast City Hospital a 75-year-old woman is critically ill, a young Spaniard is stable and a 21-year-old woman is stable but comfortable.
In Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital 21 patients are still being treated.
A hospital spokeswoman said two patients remain very seriously ill, four are seriously ill and the remainder are stable.
One young boy and three women are ill but stable in the intensive care unit of the Erne Hospital.
Ten women, five men, one spanish teacher and a young girl remain in a stable condition on the main wards.
Tyrone County Hospital is still treating 17 patients - 12 female, five male.
Four of the remaining patients are children and two are Spanish. Their conditions range from comfortable to ill but stable.
Seven patients remain , in a stable condition in the Ulster Hospital, including three young girls aged 13 and 14 years-old.
Of the adult patients, there are three women and one man.
By Kathryn Torney
TERROR TOLL
28 DEAD
9 CRITICAL
2 VERY SERIOUSLY ILL
92 IN HOSPITAL
NINE people, including two children and a 75-year-old woman, remain in a critical condition in hospitals throughout the province today following the Omagh bomb.
In total 92 people are in hospital after being injured in the bomb which tore the heart out of the market town on Saturday, killing 28.
In the Royal Victoria Hospital three children are still in hospital, two of them in a critical condition.
Five women and one man are also in a critical condition with 10 other women and four men remaining in hospital.
In Belfast City Hospital a 75-year-old woman is critically ill, a young Spaniard is stable and a 21-year-old woman is stable but comfortable.
In Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital 21 patients are still being treated.
A hospital spokeswoman said two patients remain very seriously ill, four are seriously ill and the remainder are stable.
One young boy and three women are ill but stable in the intensive care unit of the Erne Hospital.
Ten women, five men, one spanish teacher and a young girl remain in a stable condition on the main wards.
Tyrone County Hospital is still treating 17 patients - 12 female, five male.
Four of the remaining patients are children and two are Spanish. Their conditions range from comfortable to ill but stable.
Seven patients remain , in a stable condition in the Ulster Hospital, including three young girls aged 13 and 14 years-old.
Of the adult patients, there are three women and one man.
Further Information
Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0054
Published Date: 18-Aug-98
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