60,000 Pounds of Explosive Chemicals Vanish from Rail Car
Hmmmm…
About 60,000 pounds of an explosive chemical disappeared from a rail car last month as it was being shipped through the western US, according to reports.
Explosives company Dyno Nobel reported the vanishing ammonium nitrate — the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City — to the federal National Response Center on May 10, KQED reported.
Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City
The chemical, which can also be used as a fertilizer, was put on a rail car that departed Cheyenne, Wyo., on April 12, headed for California, and the rail car was found empty two weeks later during a stop in the Mojave Desert, the outlet said.
Four separate investigations have since been launched.
What does it mean to “vanish from a rail car”?
Was there a train robbery?
I don’t understand.
