Speaking of home life after having her prosthetic leg fitted, Ms Travis informs the inquiry that her parents had separated the June before the bomb. Her father was no longer living at the family home.

She recalls having to rely on family to “visit and take care” of her and her younger brother who was 16 at the time.

Speaking about her brother, she says there was a role reversal following the bomb.

“For so many year I’d been the older sister and he’d been the younger brother and how he was having to do all the caring essentials that I no longer could do," Ms Travis says.

She says during her first visit back to the town, with her aunt, she "didn't get very far at all". She became upset and asked to go home.

It was “only years later” that she was able to get past Wellworths – a shop that Ms Travis says was “a midpoint of the town".

Having apologised to her mother for not going to Dunnes Stores, Ms Travis says her mother replied: "It's not your fault, it happened, don't be blaming yourself".

She says "we were crying a lot at that point".

Ms Travis' received multiple surgeries.

"I hated looking at my little leg, I couldn't even touch it for a long time... it was going to be like this forever," she says.

Once she was discharged from Altnagelvin, Ms Travis was sent to Musgrave as they said it was time to be fitted with a prosthetic leg.

She says when she left Altnagelvin she was "depressed and angry" at the thought of the prosthetic leg being fitted.

She spent around three to four weeks at Musgrave, but got home for the weekend.

Ms Travis says being fitted for a prosthetic leg was "horrendous" but she knew she had to learn to walk again.

Ms Travis recalls being wheeled to ICU to visit her mother, who “reassured her” that “she was okay".

She recalls informing her mother about “sad stories” of those who had died in the bombing.

Ms Travis says if her mother “hadn’t survived”, she would have “found life a lot harder.”

She recalls one of the first things she mentioned to her mother was that she was “sorry” for not taking her suggestion of “going to Dunne Stores".

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Ms Travis says her brother Damien arrived at the hospital that night. She says she was pleased to see him but he ran out of the cubicle and "vomited".

She says she spent about six to eight weeks in the hospital.

The day after the bombing she found out her mum had survived and was taken to hospital, but her injuries were "so severe" and she was in coma.

Ms Travis could not leave her bed so she wasn't able to see her mum but her family provided updates.

She says she felt "guilt" because she should have listened to her mum when she suggested they should have went to Dunnes Stores.

After a week, Ms Travis was told her mum had woken up.

Ms Travis remembers the doctors “explaining what they were going to do".

She says she remembers signing documents to give permission for the amputation to take place.

After signing the form, she recalls a priest coming into the cubicle, of which she remembered as a “familiar face".

Ms Travis says when she arrived at hospital, she remembers being laid on the floor at the reception as she started to close her eyes "a lot".

Her legs were then covered with a blanket but because it covered her legs they didn't realise how injured she was, Ms Travis says.

Her friend went to find a doctor to get Ms Travis urgent care.

Once a doctor came over, she was rushed into a room on a stretcher where nurses tried to bandage the wound, the doctor then said she would have to be transferred to Altnagelvin Hospital.

She says the medical staff were "amazing".

"My heart went out to them for what they saw and dealt with that day," she says.

She remembers someone else being with her in the ambulance, the sound of the sirens and the speed they were driving at. Ms Travis says the person she was with did not survive.

Once she arrived at Altnagelvin, she was given a blood transfusion immediately, and the doctors had to amputate her leg further to just below her knee.

Ms Travis recalls her friend running into the crowd, unable to locate her mother.

A man, unknown to Ms Travis, picked her up and put her into his car, lying on the back seats while her friend sat in trying to keep her awake.

She says that she remembers thinking that she “made a mess” of the “poor man’s car”.

Ms Travis says she saw a friend who raced to get help for her.

At that point she says she realised she had her two legs in front of her but "I didn't have my left foot" as it had been blown off.

In that moment, Ms Travis says she thought about how she hadn't felt it happen.

Her friend then found someone who lifted Ms Travis away and carried her over to the bridge, sitting her up.

At this stage she says she realised she was losing "a lot of blood" and "struggling to keep awake".

She says her friend kept telling her to keep her eyes open but Ms Travis kept screaming for help for her mother.

Ms Travis says she tried to search for her mum while trying to rub her eyes, but there was just "people everywhere" so she was "really struggling".

Eventually she found her mum, who was sat up and was in the middle road. Ms Travis realised her mum must've "been blown into the air".

"I vividly remember looking at her feeling relieved that I could see her but she was covered in water," she says.

She says she hadn't felt any pain at that point.

"I knew my hands were there because they were covered in blood, I knew my eyes were ok because even though I couldn't see with the blood from my head injury."

Ms Travis says she “couldn’t see properly” and her “hands were covered in blood".

This was blood from a cut and the blood was running into her eyes, blurring her vision, she says.

Pushing herself up, she says that she saw “the poor person” beside her, alongside another person whose “injures” she’ll never forget.

She realised her mother was not beside her and then discovered both people beside her had died.

Ms Travis says when the bomb went off "it was like a dull bang" but that was because her hearing was affected.

"I just remember my entire body feeling pressure, my face felt like it was being squashed, I remember being forced downwards, and I remember being flung onto my back," she says.

She says there was an "eerie silence", then she remembers the screams, the alarms, the panic and the chaos, as the place erupted into "absolute mayhem".

As she lay on the ground, Ms Travis says as soon as she realised what had happened her face was covered in rubble, as she panicked and tried to remove it.

She managed to get it off her face and she felt something lying across her chest, after removing it she "started to lose control".

Ms Travis recalls the first thought she had in the immediate aftermath of the bomb exploding.

Part of Ms Travis' witness statement is read to the inquest.

In it, she says “the sights and sounds remain as raw today as they were on the day of the bomb".

Ms Travis believes she should have followed her mother's advice and “moved to Dunnes Stores”.

Ms Travis says they ended up at the bottom of Market Street outside The Salad Bowl. She remembers thinking of how large the crowd was and seeing people she knew.

Ms Travis she didn't sense "panic" at that time.

She says she was "metres away" from the car containing the bomb.

Ms Travis says her mum asked her to walk around to Dunnes, but she says she told her mum to "just wait".

"And that was the last thing she said to me because it exploded then after that."

Ms Travis says there was "no panic".

She and her mother followed everyone in moving away from the courthouse, ending up outside Wellworths.

She explains she felt “hurried” but “not worried” when everyone started to “gather pace".

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The inquiry is now hearing from another survivor, Suzanne Travis.

Ms Travis was 20 years old at the time of the attack and was back in home in Omagh for the holidays.

She says her and her mum went into Omagh around lunch time to buy a plane ticket for Ms Travis to travel back to Liverpool for university.

After shopping they went for lunch, they had a couple of bites of food and then she says "all of a sudden the police ran into The Shoppers Rest and told us to get out, that there had been a bomb scare".

The inquiry hearing is taking a break and is due to resume at about 13:30 GMT.

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Lord Turnbull thanks Ms McGonigle for her testimony.

“Her statement has contributed to the understanding which the inquiry has gathered of the terrible events of that day and of the enduring effect which they have had on the people of Omagh.”

Ms McGonigle says people "couldn't speak" so she tried to talk to them.

She says she went over to outpatients where she saw a girl she knew who couldn't hear and had lost a limb, as she had been blown "through the shoe shop window".

As she went back to the main hospital she was handed a baby and she saw patients being carried in on doors which were being used as makeshift stretchers.

It was then, Ms McGonigle says, she realised she "can't do this" and handed the baby back. She then left the hospital after being there for two hours, but she says it felt like five minutes.

Once she got to her car, Ms McGonigle says she threw up. She had no mobile phone, so she says her "mother thought she was dead".

She says she still gets "triggered" when she goes into hospitals.

Ms McGonigle says that when she got to the hospital, she remembers an Ulsterbus arriving with people entering the building.

She says she remembers “seeing a woman with her shopping but no clothes” as they had been “blown off her".

She recalls seeing a woman and Fr Bradley at the door of the hospital. She believes Fr Bradley was "giving her the last rites".

The inquiry will now hear a statement from Lisa McGonigle which is being read out.

On the day of 15 August 1998, as they went through Omagh she says she was told about the bomb scare.

She says when she was at the chapel it sounded like a "door had slammed" and she told the man next to her that it sounded like a "controlled explosion".

She went to the health centre to see the children on the floats for the carnival, she says she will never forget the old police vans.

"Two went past, and they had legs lying out of the back," she says.

She says someone shouted at her the "kids" and she knew something was "wrong", and as they sat there was sirens going on.

The children were coming, running and crying, she says.

Ms McGonigle then asked to driven to the hospital to check the children picked for the float were ok.