Kenyans remember Nairobi bomb blast that killed more than 200 people.
Around 10:46 am 7-8-1998, The United States embassy bombings occurred that left more than 200 people killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi,
These attacks were simultaneously coordinated in Tanzania n the US.
The attacks, which were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, brought Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and their terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, to the attention of the U.S. public for the first time, and resulted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placing bin Laden on its ten most-wanted fugitives list. o many Kenyans lost their lives!
213 people in Nairobi and 11 in Dar es Salaam were killed with more than 4000 injured in the incident.