Second youngest victim of Omagh bomb ‘was due to be flower girl’

Second youngest victim of Omagh bomb ‘was due to be flower girl’

The inquiry is taking place at the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh. Picture: PA

The second youngest victim of the Omagh bomb had been due to be a flower girl at her uncle’s wedding when she was killed in the blast.

Breda Devine, who was 20 months old, had been with her mother on a shopping trip to the centre of the Co Tyrone town on the afternoon of August 15 1998 when the Real IRA bomb exploded killing 29 people.

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