An organiser of a carnival parade due to pass through Omagh on the day of the bombing said she believes many young children could have killed in the explosion if the event had not started late.
Lisa McGonigle had helped organise for a group of children to be on a float in the parade, but it was late starting as traffic in the town was at a standstill as it had been stopped because of a bomb alert.
In a statement read to the public inquiry by a lawyer, she described young people running and crying after the explosion and how she went to Omagh hospital to check if any of the children she had selected to be on a float were there.
“We were late starting, and I…