TERROR STALKS OMAGH STREETS
Terror stalks Omagh streets
By IAN STARRETT
Terror is still stalking the streets of Omagh.
Bomb scares and intimidation have created an atmosphere of continuing fear in the town devastated for generations by Northern Ireand's worst-ever terrorist outrage on August 15.
West Tyrone Assembly-man Oliver Gibson, whose niece was killed in the Real IRA no-warning bombing atrocity, said yesterday. "The unabated terror pressure on Omagh town still persists." The DUP man claimed that after spreading "dread, threat and unending fear into every home" with a succession of bomb scares, republican terrorists were now switching their attention to rural areas in Tyrone.
He said that isolated families, are being told to "get out" as part of a republican ethnic-cleansing drive to remove the remaining Protestant families from areas where they are in a small minority.
Omagh people are still trying to come to terms with the carnage which has now left 29 men, women and children dead and scores of others seriously injured, physically and mentally.
Some are still in hospital battling for their lives. Others have lost limbs.
Mr Gibson claims the bomb scares are part of a continuing IRA strategy to create fear and apprehension in a part of the Province shattered already by last month's disaster.
He said: "The IRA has not gone away and there is no peace in Omagh or its hinterland.
"All of the community here in the town and in the surrounding countryside feel continually under threat."
By IAN STARRETT
Terror is still stalking the streets of Omagh.
Bomb scares and intimidation have created an atmosphere of continuing fear in the town devastated for generations by Northern Ireand's worst-ever terrorist outrage on August 15.
West Tyrone Assembly-man Oliver Gibson, whose niece was killed in the Real IRA no-warning bombing atrocity, said yesterday. "The unabated terror pressure on Omagh town still persists." The DUP man claimed that after spreading "dread, threat and unending fear into every home" with a succession of bomb scares, republican terrorists were now switching their attention to rural areas in Tyrone.
He said that isolated families, are being told to "get out" as part of a republican ethnic-cleansing drive to remove the remaining Protestant families from areas where they are in a small minority.
Omagh people are still trying to come to terms with the carnage which has now left 29 men, women and children dead and scores of others seriously injured, physically and mentally.
Some are still in hospital battling for their lives. Others have lost limbs.
Mr Gibson claims the bomb scares are part of a continuing IRA strategy to create fear and apprehension in a part of the Province shattered already by last month's disaster.
He said: "The IRA has not gone away and there is no peace in Omagh or its hinterland.
"All of the community here in the town and in the surrounding countryside feel continually under threat."
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
Ref: NL/307
Published Date: 19-Sep-98
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