POLICE PINPOINT CAR USED IN BOMB
Police pinpoint car used in bomb
THE final movements of the car used to transport the 500lb bomb which blasted Omagh have been traced, police revealed yesterday.
Two men were seen getting out of the maroon Vauxhall Cavalier which was abandoned in Market Street at least 40 minutes before the device went off on Saturday.
The car, stolen several days earlier in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, was seen being driven into the town along Campsie Road. Police investigating the massacre say it was then parked in a vacant spot in Market Street.
The two men were then seen walking back towards Campsie Road, but it is not known if they turned left into Drumragh Avenue, right into Dublin Road, or straight ahead back towards Campsie Road and towards the countryside.
New details of the police inquiry emerged as the last of the 28 victims was buried after a series of funerals in the devastated Co Tyrone town.
Police said the car was parked in Market Street between 2pm and 2.30pm. The bomb went off at 3.10pm after the terrorists claimed the Cavalier had been left near the town's court house.
It is not clear if the police used recordings from security videos or eyewitness accounts to pinpoint the car's final movements or the two men seen getting out of it, but the latest information is being seen as a significant breakthrough in their inquiry.
By last night the RUC had released three of the five men arrested for questioning about the Omagh bomb.
It is believed that Shane Mackey, son of 32 county sovereignty movement chairman Francie Mackey is one of those released.
THE final movements of the car used to transport the 500lb bomb which blasted Omagh have been traced, police revealed yesterday.
Two men were seen getting out of the maroon Vauxhall Cavalier which was abandoned in Market Street at least 40 minutes before the device went off on Saturday.
The car, stolen several days earlier in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, was seen being driven into the town along Campsie Road. Police investigating the massacre say it was then parked in a vacant spot in Market Street.
The two men were then seen walking back towards Campsie Road, but it is not known if they turned left into Drumragh Avenue, right into Dublin Road, or straight ahead back towards Campsie Road and towards the countryside.
New details of the police inquiry emerged as the last of the 28 victims was buried after a series of funerals in the devastated Co Tyrone town.
Police said the car was parked in Market Street between 2pm and 2.30pm. The bomb went off at 3.10pm after the terrorists claimed the Cavalier had been left near the town's court house.
It is not clear if the police used recordings from security videos or eyewitness accounts to pinpoint the car's final movements or the two men seen getting out of it, but the latest information is being seen as a significant breakthrough in their inquiry.
By last night the RUC had released three of the five men arrested for questioning about the Omagh bomb.
It is believed that Shane Mackey, son of 32 county sovereignty movement chairman Francie Mackey is one of those released.
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Publisher: THE IRISH NEWS
Ref: IN/0148
Published Date: 21-Aug-98
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