Hello and welcome back to BBC News NI's live coverage of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry as the third week of hearings continues.

The public inquiry was set up by the government to examine whether the 1998 explosion could have been prevented by the UK authorities.

Over the past two weeks, the inquiry has heard commemorations of victims of the Omagh bombing. On Tuesday, the inquiry moved into a new phase and is now hearing from witnesses and people who were injured in the Real IRA attack.

Today we are expected to hear from:

• Donna-Marie McGillion
• Garry McGillion
• Jaime McGlinn
• Caroline McKinney
• Read statements of Caroline Taggart and Katrine Gault

The inquiry is due to begin at 10:00 GMT.

Toni Connor

That's our live coverage finished for the day. We'll start up again tomorrow morning when the inquiry resumes at 10:00 GMT. Join us then.

Today's live page was written by myself and Holly Fleck, and edited by Hayley Halpin.

Thanks for joining us.

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry heard from six survivors and witnesses today:

• Ian Ferguson said the day of the Omagh bombing was the day his life changed. He recalls the engine of the car still on fire and remembers screaming and crying and lifting a woman off the ground. He said he spent most of the day carrying people from the ground and getting towels and blankets to help people. Mr Ferguson said he has perforated eardrums and his hearing has been affected by the attack.
• Valerie Hamilton said she remembers a "flash and an immense heat" as the bomb exploded. At hospital she was told that if she had been closer to the bomb she could have lost her eye. Ms Hamilton said she spent five years in her house not wanting to "do anything". She said that her left eye has reduced vision and fears possible eye loss, she says she also has to wear hearing aids in both ears and suffers from tinnitus.
• Edel Doherty said she left Wellworths when she "heard a loud bang and black smoke". Ms Doherty went into Boots to grab products that would absorb blood, such as nappies. She said that "without being told that death was evident". Due to her mental and physical health deteriorating, Ms Doherty had to give up her job.
• Nicola Marlow said she never got a chance to say goodbye to her sister, Jolene Marlow, who died in the bombing. She said the "last time I saw her was standing side by side a car that ultimately killed her". Ms Marlow spoke of her own injuries whereby she was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital and went through "multiple surgeries trying to recover".
• Pauline Harte toldthe inquiry she was 19-years-old at the time of the bomb, which went off next to her. Ms Harte recalls engine of the car used for the bomb landing on her legs on fire. She says her injuries included broken ribs, collarbone, punctured lung, and third degree burns from the waist down. Ms Harte recalls undergoing two amputations and had to learn how to walk again.
• Rosemary Ingram said she thought she had been hit by a car after hearing a blast. She said she can just recall the smell of burning flesh. Ms Ingram said she had fractures "all over" her body and injuries that impacted her spine and hip. She underwent multiple surgeries to remove fragments of shrapnel. She had to leave their home in Omagh as it was near the hospital, and each time she heard sirens she had flashbacks and PTSD.

Lord Turnbull thanks Ms Ingram for assisting the inquiry.

"It was in her public duties in work where she sustained the injuries that day that was just the start of the burden and pain she would endure with mobility and memories still all these years later."

He repeats his thanks for the statements.

Ms Ingram says she was called to the High Court to assess her injuries, in a small room in front of six lawyers.

She says she was told to "strip" to her underwear and stand in the corner of the room, facing the wall in front of the panel.

Ms Ingram says she was told to do this so the Northern Ireland Office's compensation agency could examine her scars to assess how money she "should be given".

"The experience made me feel like a victim all over again. I was close to tears."

She says "thankfully my husband who was asked to leave the room refused, and stayed with me".

Ms Ingram says her husband took off his jacket to put around her and he told the lawyers "that was enough".

"No one at my age should have been forced to take off their clothes like that and I pleaded for the procedure to be changed," she says.

Ms Ingram asked for the assessment to take place through medical reports and photos of injuries, which she says was eventually done "to the benefit of other victims".

"Justice would have been done by seeing that those responsible for this terrorist atrocity were convicted and bore the consequences of their heinous crime. But this has not happened," she says.

Ms Ingram says she couldn't get to her sister-in-laws funeral because of the injuries she sustained from the bomb.

"I lost my dear sister-in-law Anne McComb. We were so close, she was asked to leave work and she was murdered and died instantly her injuries were too graphic to describe."

"I wanted to attend my sister-in-law's funeral but couldn't due to my injuries. We had a short service for her at the hospital," she added.

Ms Ingram says nightmares and flashbacks can "come back at anytime", with ambulance sirens acting as a "trigger", generating anxiety and depression.

Ms Ingram says she was also diagnosed with PTSD, and she had to take early retirement as she was "unfit to continue working".

She says she had to leave their home in Omagh as it was near the hospital, and each time she heard sirens she had flashbacks and PTSD.

Ms Ingram recalls when the bomb exploded and says she thought she had been hit by a car after hearing a blast.

She says she can just recall the smell of burning flesh.

She says she was "in a daze, crying for an ambulance". She says a policeman stopped with injured passengers and took her to the hospital "with a head wound".

"I had to leave the bed for someone who was worse off than me," Ms Ingram says.

Ms Ingram says she was treated for injuries all over her body. She says she had fractures "all over" her body and injuries that impacted her spine and hip.

She underwent multiple surgeries to remove fragments of shrapnel. She says some shrapnel is still falling from her body 26 years later.

"I suffer ongoing pain and chronic issues with my mobility. Before this I was fit and healthy."

In a statement read out on behalf of Rosemary Ingram to the inquiry, Ms Ingram says on 15 August 1998 she went to the police station and she volunteered to manage a carnival that was going through town that afternoon.

At about 14:30 GMT she says she walked down towards Market Street, where a police officer told her there was a bomb alert at the courthouse. He asked her to prevent traffic from entering Market Street.

She says there was a picture taken by a tourist "a few minutes before the bomb went off", where she is seen standing with her back to the car with the bomb.

Ms Ingram says she was becoming very aware of the large number of cars behind her, but during the bomb alert she only dealt with the traffic.

She says she didn't see anyone stopping pedestrians going up Market Street.

There was an audio problem at the beginning of Rosemary Ingram's statement being read out on behalf of her. We apologise but we will pick up from where the audio resumes.

Lord Turnbull says to Ms Harte that there will be few people who will have had ever heard an account of the "appalling suffering or hurt" that Ms Harte has endured at such a young age of 19.

He talks about her generosity of sharing her account of the bombing.

Lord Turnbull also reflects on his 40 years working in the justice system and says "everyone will be humbled about your gratitude and thanks for those who came to your rescue".

He shares his thanks for the statement from Ms Harte.

Ms Harte says 26 years on she is still in "awe of what was done" for her by "so many people".

"They are the reason I exist and walk tall," she says.

She says due to her injuries her skin has regular infections, with them becoming more "difficult to treat".

Ms Harte says over the years she has learned about the the types of dressing and how they will affect her wounds.

She says looking back makes her feel "incredibly grateful".

"So many people over the years have told me they were there but not injured. They were injured. We just can’t see it," she adds.

She says that the people who looked after her "absorbed" her pain and she couldn't have done it without them.

"I see us growing through the different ages that those who lost their lives in the bomb were at," she says.

"My body is broken but I will be forever thankful that I don’t have a broken heart."

Ms Harte recalls undergoing two amputations and says she can’t describe the horror of the word “amputation”.

She says she "couldn’t and wouldn’t accept that it was going to be a reality".

"I think I still have this feeling. It frightened me to know this would be permanent, that I couldn’t change it. I remember begging for any other solution, it just felt like such a horrifying situation and I felt so desperate for it not to be me."

Ms Harte had to go to a hospital where she had to go back to the start and relearn how to walk all over again.

"I went into Musgrave Hospital to learn to walk again. I feel normal in Musgrave, I call them my mechanics," she says.

Ms Harte says there was a moment when she was being encouraged about the advancement on artificial limbs, and was told “things have really developed in the last 25 years, so in the next 25 years it’ll develop even further”.

"Even though I knew of course this was permanent, I vividly remember those words hitting me like a brick. I was going to be like this in 25 years’ time, and forever."

Ms Harte says she was taken to the hospital in Omagh, where their family friend, Kathleen stayed with her.

She says her ribs were broken and her lung had collapsed, resulting in a chest drain to ensure she survived.

She was then transferred to the burns unit in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

During this time she says her family were looking for her.

"They have felt every bit of my pain, often they have felt it more as I had heavy pain relief for the physical injuries. My mum and sisters had no relief," she adds.

She says her injuries included broken ribs, collarbone, punctured lung, and third degree burns from the waist down.

Ms Harte says she has many memories of "screaming in pain".

She says she went through numerous operations and countless skin grafts.

Ms Harte recalls engine of the car used for the bomb landing on my legs on fire.

"I was on fire underneath it," Ms Harte says.

"I saw deep black, orange and red colours moving and it sounded as angry as it looked."

She says her ears hurt and everything was muffled. She says people were screaming above the noise of the engine.

"I knew I was trapped, and reached my hand down to see what was stopping me. I touched the bar across my stomach, and that is my first memory of the pain."

She recalls men trying to help her and didn't stop to tend to their own injuries

"There were approximately six to eight incredible men who started to rock the engine to try to free me.

"Another of the officers had himself been blown back by the bomb, and when he had got up, he came to help me after noticing that I was moving. Along with the other men, the officers were able to rock the engine and pull me free, burning their hands in the process."

"These men didn’t stop and tend to their injuries, they kept on helping other people until there was no-one left to help."

She says she "can’t imagine the trauma they all went through that day".

"I have found and met some of them, but not them all. I remember the profound devastation they felt because some of those they were helping didn’t survive. They were broken. I will never forget their dedication and selfless actions."

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Pauline Harte tells the inquiry she was 19-years-old when she had two amputations and was burnt as a result of the bomb.

She was working near the courthouse at the time of the attack.

During her break, a policeman pulled up next to her in town and escorted her away from the courthouse.

She says she met her friends and made her way to where the car containing the bomb was.

In attempt to be further away from the courthouse, she moved further back - which meant she was beside the car with the bomb.

She says her last memory before her "life changed" was reaching in to her pocket to find 95p for the bus fare home.

"Then the bomb went off," she says.

The afternoon session of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry has begun.

We're due to resume our live updates from 14:00 GMT, as the inquiry hears from Pauline Harte and Rosemary Ingram.

You can watch live by hitting the play button at the top of this page.

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Lord Turnbull says Nicola Marlow's statement was "moving" as it "serves to emphasises the nature and the extent of the loss" which was inflicted on their family, when they lost Nicola's sister Jolene Marlow in the Omagh bombing.

He says he learned of Ms Marlow's injuries and "gruelling" recovery, and that she is "correct" in recognising the strength of the victims and survivors.

A lawyer is reading a statement on behalf on Nicola Marlow.

Ms Marlow's sister Jolene Marlow died in the bombing.

Nicola Marlow says she lost her only sister.

"My parents lost their first born daughter. I was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Hospital and went through multiple surgeries trying to recover. These life changing injuries changed my life forever."

Nicola Marlow says she never got a chance to say goodbye to her sister.

"The last time I saw her was standing side by side a car that ultimately killed her. I was robbed of my sister, my friend. My family had to suppress their grief to help me overcome mine. It's been challenging. It will impact me for the rest of our lives."

She says she is reluctant to be called a victim "as the word victim suggests vulnerability".

"Everyone involved is the strongest people I have met.

She says this inquiry won't change anything, will give closure to the last 26 years of pain.