KENYA: UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO KENYA UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO THOSE KILLED IN EMBASSY BOMBINGS IN NAIROBI AND DAR ES SALAAM IN AUGUST

Record ID: 336954

  • Title: KENYA: UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO KENYA UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO THOSE KILLED IN EMBASSY BOMBINGS IN NAIROBI AND DAR ES SALAAM IN AUGUST
  • Date: 31st January 1999
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (JANUARY 30, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV OF AUDIENCE GATHERED FOR MEMORIAL DEDICATION 0.04 2. SLV CHILDREN HOLDING KENYAN, TANZANIAN, UNITED STATES AND UNITED NATIONS FLAGS 0.10 3. SV PEACE POLL BEING UNVEILED 0.20 4. SV BASE OF MEMORIAL WITH INSCRIPTION 0.23 5. CU OF INSCRIPTION 0.28 6. SLV/SV OF PE
  • Embargoed: 15th February 1999 12:00
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  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Reuters ID: LVACWGROOGPFHC4H67X7IUX1E9QD
  • Story Text: The United States Ambassador to Kenya has unveiled a
    memorial to those killed in the embassy bombings in Nairobi
    and Dar Es Salaam in August


    Ambassador Prudence Bushnell unveiled the simple
    memorial, a white pole donated by Kenya's Hindu community, on
    Saturday (January 30), to the more than 250 people, including
    11 Americans, killed when a suicide bomber drover a truck bomb
    into the U.S.embassy compound on August 7, 1998.

    Bushnell was quoted on Sunday by the Nairobi-based
    Sunday Standard as confirming that the building will be torn
    down after engineers confirmed that it was no longer safe for
    habitation.

    She confirmed that Washington has purchased a building in
    the industrial area of the city, along the main
    Nairobi-Mombasa highway, where the embassy would be
    temporarily transferred until an appropriate location is
    identified.
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