Oklahoma City bombing

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.... Wikipedia

  • Location:  Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
  • Date:  April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m. CDT (UTC-05:00)
  • Target:  U.S. federal government
  • Attack type:  Truck bombing, mass murder, domestic terrorism, right-wing terrorism
  • Weapons:  ANFO fertilizer truck bomb.45 ACP Glock 21 Gen 2 (unused, conceal carried by McVeigh)
  • Deaths:  167–168 direct deaths, 1 indirect
  • Non-fatal injuries:  592–684
  • Perpetrators:  Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols
  • Motive:  Anti-government sentiment, Retaliation for the Ruby Ridge standoff, Waco siege and Federal Assault Weapons Ban
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo
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