Mr Palmer’s statement said he was told he needed medical help, so he was driven in a RUC Land Rover to Omagh hospital, with injured victims in the back of the vehicle.
Allan Palmer, an RUC constable in 1998, told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that he remembered seeing people lying dead in front of him in the moments following the blast.
It said he was on duty in the Co Tyrone town in August 15 1998, when he received notification of a bomb alert in the area of the town’s courthouse.
Mr Palmer said: “As we continued to move down Market Street the bomb exploded.
His statement said: “I will never forget the horror of what I witnessed at the scene of the Omagh bomb.
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