Mr Haslett said: “A female police officer was able to tell them that there had been casualties but she didn’t know if any were police.
He said: “When we were satisfied there were no further bodies to recover from the wreckage and the street, a total of 20 bodies and a body part lay in Market Street arcade and in the shop.”.
Mr Haslett said a decision was taken to move the bodies to a small alleyway at the side of Market Street.
Norman Haslett told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that while the bomb killed 29 civilians, including a woman pregnant with twins, he believed that police were the intended target.
The Real IRA most likely set out to murder police when they left a massive car bomb in the centre of Omagh in 1998, an officer has told a public inquiry.
