Omagh bombing: Background

Omagh bombing: Background

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High profile republican Seamus Daly has been charged with murdering 29 people in the Real IRA bomb attack on Omagh in 1998.

The attack was the single worst atrocity during more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

Daly was one of four men ordered to pay more than £1.5m in damages to the victims' families in a civil case.

Chris Buckler reports from Omagh.
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Omagh bomb: Seamus Daly charged with 29 murders



FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A man in an Alabama jail who has confessed to killing dozens across the country did not name the drug cartels he said employed him.

Tim McWhorter, a captain and chief investigator with the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office in Alabama, says 51-year-old Jose Manuel Martinez told authorities

that he would never divulge the names or cartel affiliations of his criminal associates. Martinez told investigators he was not necessarily a hit man but was

hired to collect debts.

Lawrence County deputies arrested Martinez in connection with a 2013 shooting death.

McWhorter said that Martinez, who has pleaded not guilty in the case, confessed to that killing and many others.

Martinez has also been charged with nine murders in California and is wanted on suspicion of committing two 2006 murders in Florida.