Sixty-one hurt by bomb still in hospitals

Sixty-one people injured in the Omagh bombing are still being treated in seven hospitals throughout the North

Sixty-one people injured in the Omagh bombing are still being treated in seven hospitals throughout the North. Five adults remain in a critical condition at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. Two children there have been taken off the critical list but remain seriously ill.

More than 200 people were injured when the 500 lb bomb exploded. Life will never be the same for some of the injured. Many have lost their sight or limbs. Others have lost the very faces they saw in the mirror. Years of plastic surgery and reconstruction will be necessary.

Twenty-three of the worst injured are being cared for in the Royal Victoria. Their ages range from 13 months to 68 years. Of those on the critical list, four are women and one a man. Four children are still being treated at the hospital. Three of the children were members of the visiting Spanish group.

Two more patients remain at Belfast City hospital. One woman in intensive care is described as serious but stable. Another woman is stable.

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At Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, 15 people are still receiving treatment for deep lacerations and fractures. All are in a stable condition. Six children are among the injured there, ranging in age from eight to 14 years.

One woman is seriously ill in the Ulster hospital at Dundonald, Belfast. A further seven women are satisfactory. Two of the patients are 14 year-old girls; both have shrapnel injuries.

At the Tyrone County hospital, three patients, two women and a man, are stable. The Erne hospital in Enniskillen says the eight patients in its care are stable.

In South Tyrone Hospital, the newly born girl of Ms Nicola Emery, who was injured in the explosion, is reported in perfect health. The baby was born last Thursday, only days after her mother was caught up in the blast.

Ms Emery's condition is described as stable, as is the condition of another woman being treated at the hospital.