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NEW YORK Thirty years after a bomb killed six people, one of them pregnant, victims relatives, survivors, dignitaries and others gathered at the World Trade Center on Sunday for a ceremony that included the reading of the names of the victims. The anniversary was also being marked at a Sunday Mass at a nearby church and a panel discussion today at the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
Lolita Jackson was at her 72nd-floor desk in the World Trade Center, feeling like she worked at the top of the world. Then came the boom, and smoke started curling in from an elevator shaft.
NEW YORK (AP) Lolita Jackson was at her 72nd-floor desk in the World Trade Center, feeling like she worked at the top of the world. Then came the boom, and…
Thirty years after terrorism first struck the World Trade Center, victims’ relatives and survivors are commemorating the deadly 1993 bombing that foreshadowed 9/11. Anniversary observances are planned Sunday at the trade center and at a nearby church. The explosion in an underground parking garage killed six people, including a pregnant woman. More than 1,000 people were injured. Tens of thousands fled in a harrowing evacuation that highlighted the challenges of clearing out some of the world’s tallest buildings in a fiery emergency. The blast also served as a warning of Islamic extremists’ yearning to destroy the trade center’s twin towers.