Credit: FBIPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenUnited States Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya · 1998
On August 7, 1998, near-simultaneous truck bombs detonated outside the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing more than 220 people, mostly local citizens, and wounding thousands more.
Credit: Anne KnightCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenWestgate Shopping Mall, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya · 2013
On 21 September 2013, four al-Shabaab gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 71 people including 62 civilians, five soldiers, and all four attackers, in a siege lasting several days.
UNSOLVEDListenThika Highway, Nairobi, Kenya · 2014
On 4 May 2014, bombs exploded on two commuter buses on Nairobi's Thika Highway within minutes of each other, killing at least three people and injuring more than sixty, amid a broader wave of attacks in Kenya attributed to al-Shabaab-linked militants.
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Onlookers of the Westgate incident from the roof of a nearby hotel — Credit: Anne KnightCC BY-SA 3.0Source
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