A 34-year-old man was tonight charged with supplying the car used to plant the Real IRA bomb which killed 29 people and two unborn babies in Omagh, Co Tyrone in 1998.
The PSN I s aid the man, from Dundalk in the Irish Republic, would appear before a magistrate in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh tomorrow morning.
The man was detained by police in the border town of Newry, Co Down yesterday. The PSNI said tonight the 34-year-old had been charged by detectives from the Omagh bomb investigation team with providing property of use to terrorists.
The charge states that between August 11th and 16th, 1998 he supplied the maroon Vauxhall Cavalier car which exploded in Omagh. It caused devastation and the worst loss of life in any single terrorist attack in Northern Ireland during 30 years of violence.
No one has yet been charged with committing the murders in Omagh although one man has previously been charged with possessing the timer power unit used to detonate the massive car bomb in the Vauxhall Cavalier.
Tonight's charge came just days after senior officers stressed the investigation into the Real IRA atrocity was still ongoing.