The 1998 Nairobi bomb blast in pictures

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.