Oklahoma City Bombing.
On the morning of 19 April 1995, a huge explosion ripped through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Caused by a lethal mixture of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate packed into a rental truck parked nearby, the blast spread death and destruction throughout a forty-eight-square-block area, overturning automobiles and damaging three hundred buildings. At the time of the explosion, nearly a thousand people were in the Murrah Building, which housed sixteen federal agencies and a day-care center. The entire north face of the structure collapsed and each of the nine floors received extensive damage. Emergency personnel frantically searched the Murrah Building for survivors. The final human toll numbered 168 killed, including many children, and at least 700 injured.... ...
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