On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a militia sympathizer and former US army soldier, detonated a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh carried out the attack on the two-year anniversary of the FBI assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. The truck bomb, constructed of 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate, killed 168 people, including nineteen children in a day care center on the second floor of the building. Most of the deaths were from injuries suffered in the collapse of the building, not the explosion itself. Only eight of the victims were
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