Bomb Blast: It’s 19 years since Al-Qaeda unleashed terror in Nairobi
Amid the election fever, Kenya’s online community on Monday remembered victims of the 1998 US embassy bomb blast carried out by Osama Bin Laden’s terror group Al-Qaeda.
Some 213 people were killed in the Nairobi bombing -and 11 in the almost simultaneous blast in Dar es Salaam- which heavily damaged the embassy’s building and incinerated two passing passenger buses.
Scores of people were unaccounted for and more than 1,100 injured in the attack.
Netizens paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the blast and also gave messages of encouragement to family and friends of the victims.
This is what they had to say.
Today is also the 19th anniversary of the August 7th 1998 @USEmbassyKenya bomb blast. May we never forget. pic.twitter.com/8lsDZQhZmC
— Capital in the Morning (@984inthemorning) August 7, 2017
Today… 7th August
Kenya remembers Nairobi Bomb Blast incidence that happened 19 years ago.— Mwaura?? (@MwauraGeorgeQA) August 6, 2017
So this time elections and 1998 bomb blast share the same month except the dates that's a day apart…one of Kenya's worst tragedies..
— ausTIN (@auskidhe) August 1, 2017
Today… 7th August
Kenya remembers Nairobi Bomb Blast incidence that happened 19 years ago.— Mwaura?? (@MwauraGeorgeQA) August 6, 2017
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