THE mum of one of the youngest victims in the Omagh bombing has tragically died.
Tracey Devine was also badly injured following the 1998 explosion.
She passed away on Saturday without seeing justice for her daughter.
Tracey’s daughter Breda was only 20 months old when she was killed in the blast.
A death notice said Tracey died “peacefully at her home surrounded by her loving family”.
It also described her as a “beloved wife”, “devoted mother” and “loving granny”.
A funeral mass is due to take place on Tuesday at t Mary’s Church, Aughabrack, followed by a burial in the adjoining cemetery
On August 15, 1998, 29 people lost their lives when a bomb went off in Omagh, Co Tyrone.
This included a woman who was pregnant with twins.
A public inquiry opened last month looking into the events surrounding the horror incident.
This has been set up by Northern Irish Government officials to look into whether the explosion could have been prevented by UK authorities.
A number of personal statements are being read by victims and survivors of the incident throughout the inquiry.
Breda, who was the second youngest victim, had a statement read about her in January.
It heard the toddler had been due to be a flower girl at her uncle and aunt’s wedding, who were with the mum and daughter when the bomb went off.
Breda’s aunt, Donna-Marie McGillion, who was placed into a coma for more than six weeks, said she had believed there would not be a terrorist attack in the town in August 1998 as the Good Friday peace deal had been signed months earlier.
She eventually married her partner Garry, who was also seriously injured in the explosion, the following year.
The Omagh Bombing Inquiry was told that Ms McGillion’s injuries were so severe that at first her family could only recognise her through her engagement ring.
On the day of the bombing, Ms McGillion had travelled into town with her partner, her partner’s sister and his niece Breda Devine.
They were shopping for shoes for 20-month-old Breda at the wedding.
She said: “We thought, we had had the Good Friday Agreement, a bomb was never going to go off in Omagh. It was only a (bomb) scare.
“We thought get in, get what we need and get out.
“Looking back on it now, it was a case of, we have the peace process, this is not going to happen, it has passed us now.
“When the (bomb) scare came we thought it was just somebody being silly.”
Ms McGillion said she has no memory of the explosion.
