On this day, Feb. 28, in 1993,agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, Texas, prompting a gunbattle in which four agents and six followers of David Koresh were killed.
Koresh and his followers were accused of sexual abuse of children and stockpiling dozens of weapons and explosives.
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