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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY FEBRUARY 26 ,1993 World Trade Center is bombed At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a massive, multi-story crater and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main structure of the skyscrapers, six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. The World Trade Center itself suffered more than $500 million in damage. After the attack, authorities evacuated 50,000 people from the buildings, hundreds of whom were suffering from smoke inhalation. The evacuation lasted the whole afternoon. https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Ramzi+Ahmed+Yousef&&mid=FA0E8E89681D5F194727FA0E8E89681D5F194727&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUC9m0TI-Yt1TxXWZCezegv8w&FORM=VAMGZC