1993 World Trade Center bombing
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Description
On February 26, 1993, Ramzi Yousef and associates carried out a van bomb terrorist attack below the North Tower of the New York World Trade Center. The 1,336 lb (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to make the North Tower collapse onto the South Tower, taking down both skyscrapers and killing tens of thousands of people. While it failed to do so, it killed six people, including a pregnant woman, and caused over a thousand injuries. About 50,000 people were evacuated from the buildings that day.
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