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Sudan to pay embassy bomb victims Sh460b

Dr Mary Ngunyi-Muiruri, a former Nairobi US Embassy employee breaks down at the 1998 bombing memorial plaque. A US court had ordered Sudan to pay punitive damages for the bombing. [File]

The US Supreme Court has ordered Sudan to pay Sh460 billion in damages to the victims of terrorist bomb attacks in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

However, it is not clear whether those killed or injured in the simultaneous attacks on August 7, 1998 at US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam will be among those compensated. The attacks killed 224 people and injured thousands.

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