Terrorist attack

Oklahoma City bombing

19 Apr 1995 · 35.47° N, 97.52° W

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When
19 Apr 1995
Kind
Terrorist attack
Coordinates
35.47° N, 97.52° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Oklahoma City bombing.

Summary

Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh.

Oklahoma City bombing

1995 domestic terrorism bombing in Oklahoma City

On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in an act of domestic terrorism. The explosion killed 167 people, injured 684, and destroyed more than a third of the building.

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