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Waco siege

In 1993, around 80 people died in the fire that ended the siege at the headquarters of a Christian cult in Waco, Texas.

Sam Henry from Manchester, lost his wife and five children in the blaze.

He tells Witness how the cult's leader David Koresh, brainwashed his family.

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