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On 26th February 1993, at approximately 12.18 p.m., an explosion occurred under the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Early media reports and some telephone com-munications from law enforcement personnel in New York suggested that a generator had exploded.
Bomb technician Special Agents from the New York FBI had responded as a first analysis team and their conclusion was that an improvised explosive device had exploded.
Subsequent requests to the FBI Laboratory for field support were met with two Special Agent Examiners from the FBI Laboratory Explosives Unit who arrived in New York on 27th February. Initial analyses of the crime scene confirmed that the damage had been caused by an improvised explosive device.
Within one week following the explosion, more than 300 law enforcement officers from around the country had sifted through more than 2,500 cubic yards of debris weighing in excess of 6,800 tons, and had pieced together evidence in the most significant international terrorist act ever committed on U.S. soil.
The resulting explosion killed six people and injured more than a thousand. More than 50,000 people were evacuated from the Trade Center complex during the hours immediately following the blast.