1998 United States embassy bombings
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two Capital East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
U.S. embassy in Nairobi after the explosion, with the collapsed Ufundi Building.
A Nissan Atlas truck, similar to that used in Dar es-Salaam
Wreckage from the Nairobi bombing
Memorial park at the site of the embassy in Nairobi, 2007
Embassy of the United States, Nairobi
The Embassy of the United States of America in Nairobi, located in Nairobi, is home to the diplomatic mission of the United States to the Republic of Kenya. The embassy opened in central Nairobi on 2 March 1964, when the United States established diplomatic relations with Kenya. In 1998, the original embassy was the target of a terrorist attack, after which a new embassy building was constructed in Gigiri, a suburb of Nairobi, in 2003.
Embassy of the United States, Nairobi
Aftermath of the 1998 bombing.