August 7 Memorial Park

travel · 📍 Nairobi, Kenya

August 7 Memorial Park — Attraction / activity in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1998 a truck bomb blast rocked downtown Nairobi. The US Embassy building had been the target of a terrorist attack, reducing it to rubble and killing 213 people, mostly bystanders, and leaving more than 4,000 injured. On the same day, the US embassy in Dar es Salaam was also subject to a similar attack which killed 11 people and injured 85. 21 people were charged, including Osama Bin Laden. The former embassy site today contains a memorial park, with a monument engraved with the names of every victim. Price: Ksh 30. Listed on Wikivoyage (CC-BY-SA). Source: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Nairobi

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travel · tours

Address

Nairobi, Kenya

City

Nairobi

Region/State

Africa

Country

Kenya

Website

http://memorialparkkenya.org