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The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Ramzi Yousef and associates against the United States on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City.
On February 26, 1993, the hotel was seriously damaged as a result of the World Trade Center bombing. [20] Terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda took a Ryder truck loaded with 1,500 pounds (682 kilograms) of explosives and parked it in the North Tower parking garage below the hotel's ballroom. [ 20 ]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. [4]
The 1993 bombing both foreshadowed and was later overshadowed by the 9/11 attacks eight years later.
New York City has marked the anniversary of the 1993 bombing at the old World Trade Center that blew open a massive crater underneath one of the 110-story twin towers, killing six people and ...
Sep. 11—Among the more indelible images to emerge from the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 are the photographs and video footage of two airplanes flying into the North and South Towers of the ...
The World Trade Center experienced several major crime and terrorist incidents, including a fire on February 13, 1975; [17] a bombing on February 26, 1993; [18] and a bank robbery on January 14, 1998, [19] all of which led to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing 767 jets, one into each ...
It's been 25 years since the February 26, 1993 attack, when terrorists set off a homemade bomb in a parking garage under the World Trade Center's twin towers. Eyewitness News takes a look back.