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Several buildings came tumbling down following the blast.
On this day 20 years ago, a massive blast occurred and the American Embassy and adjacent Ufundi Cooperative House came tumbling down.
The massive blast killed 224 people and injured 5,000.
It was mid-morning on August 7, 1998, when the first massive blast hit the US embassy in downtown Nairobi, followed minutes later by an explosion in Dar es Salaam, killing a total of 224 people and injuring around 5,000.
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