Mr Martin Wolfe, a lawyer acting for RUC officers through the Northern Ireland Police Federation, asked that greater sensitivity be shown to officers giving evidence.
It had been indicated to Mr Wolfe that some officers might find the pictures of bodies distressing if they were shown them without warning in the course of their evidence. He said some officers at the scene were still suffering ill-effects and "the worry is that the sight of these photographs may well set them back."
One of the two officers who was closest to the site of the explosion, Const Tara McBurney, was not able to testify in person.
Ms Gemma Loughran, counsel to the coroner, read a medical statement which said Const McBurney's attendance "would be detrimental to her psychological health, and would cause her very significant distress". Const McBurney remained under medical care, which would continue for "a substantial period of time," she said before the officer's statement was read.
Const McBurney's account said she and Const Alan Palmer had set up a moving cordon on Market Street. "People in general were very reluctant to move, and I had to constantly push and shove them physically to keep them moving away from the courthouse," the statement said.
"I was outside the Spick and Span shop when I heard a loud explosion. I felt a strong wind and my breath was taken away for about five seconds. I felt debris flying past my body, clipping me as it went. I opened my eyes and realised that a bomb had exploded and we had walked into it. "I realised that my ears had been affected by the blast and held them."
Const McBurney said she saw a colleague "uninjured but surrounded by dead bodies and body parts. Everybody was screaming and hysterical and covered in blood".
A screaming girl then pointed out a woman beside her, later identified as one of the injured, Ms Wendy Edgar. The statement continued: "I saw that the girl had a piece of mangled and twisted metal about five inches long protruding from her chest."
Const McBurney ferried the injured to the hospital in her car, making three journeys before returning to the scene to assist.
Const Palmer told how he had twice refused treatment for his injuries in order to help others. He said he was showered with glass and had felt a sharp pain in his back in the explosion. He described how he had given first aid to a number of casualties, including Ms Debra Ann Cartright. He examined Ms Cartright but "she was dead or dying. There was nothing I could do".
After searching S.D. Kells, the shop which caught the full impact of the blast, another constable told him "my back was badly bleeding and I needed medical attention myself".
With another officer, he drove some injured to Tyrone County Hospital nearby. Here he was again advised to get medical attention, but as the hospital was overwhelmed with casualties he and a different constable continued to the Erne Hospital near Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, with some of the less seriously wounded.
There, Const Palmer assisted with casualties until he could not continue. "I felt I was going into shock. I just wasn't feeling well," he said. He told the inquest he later received 27 stitches in his back.
Const Robert Walker told how he had been clearing a side street nearer the courthouse when he heard the bomb. "I said `That's not where the bomb's supposed to be'," he said. Running to the scene, he said, he met "people walking as if they were in a trance".
He, too, ferried the injured to hospital. There he dealt with one woman, identified as Mrs Veda Short. "She had a leg missing below the knee and had very little clothes on". Her son, with her, was "crying and trying to help his mother". They and another officer carried Mrs Short into casualty, where a doctor checked her pulse before saying she was dead.
"Her son began crying uncontrollably to try again . . . The doctor declined and went to help other people," Const Walker said.
Mr Stephen Ritchie, counsel for the RUC Chief Constable, objected to Const Walker's being asked what previous procedures for dealing with bomb warnings had been. He argued that what the witness had experienced before "has no bearing on the deaths of these people".
Sgt Stephen Thompson, then stationed in nearby Carrickmore, said he had been organising the evacuation of Market Street. This would have had the effect of pushing people back past the bomb. When it exploded, it blew him into a shop window.
After the explosion he saw a woman underneath the burning engine block of a car. Although Ms Green survived, he said that to him, "when the block was removed, it was obvious that person was dead".
Mr Michael Gallagher, whose 21-year-old son, Adrian, was killed, said that until yesterday's evidence the relatives had not appreciated what those in the emergency services had gone through on the day.
Mr Gallagher said the relatives had been placed under great strain during the evidence. "It was very trying listening because we never knew when someone was going to mention your loved one's name," he said.