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Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims today won a landmark civil action against four men they blamed for the attack in which 29 people died.

Former Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt and three other men — Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly — were found to be responsible for the bombing by a judge in a landmark civil case brought by victims’ families at Belfast High Court.