Waco Texas USA, March 1993: FBI agents unload their belongings including guns from a pickup truck early in the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian religious sect's Mount Carmel Center compound. The standoff between sect members and federal law enforcement agents ended April 18 when fire swept through the compound, killing 76 people. ©Bob Daemmrich

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Axtell, Texas USA March 6 1993: FBI agents unload their belongings including guns from a pickup truck near Waco, Texas early in the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian religious sect's Mount Carmel Center compound. The standoff between sect members and federal law enforcement agents ended April 18 when fire swept through the compound, killing 76 people. ©Bob Daemmrich

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