Barack Obama lays wreath at Nairobi Memorial Park
US President Barack Obama on Saturday laid a wreath at the Kenyan capital's Memorial Park in memory of people killed in the 1998 embassy bombing.
He placed the wreath on a holder in front of a wall engraved with the names of the dead and stood for a moment in silence.
Around a dozen survivors and National Security Adviser Susan Rice also attended.
5,000 WERE HURT
The scene was quiet except for the sound of a fountain just behind Obama and the distant sound of an assembled crowd of well-wishers who were kept back by police.
The US missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were hit by near-simultaneous car bombings on August 7, 1998.
The twin bombings, claimed by Al-Qaeda, killed a total of 224 people and injured some 5,000 β almost all of them Kenyans and Tanzanians.
Obama is currently making his first visit to Kenya, his father's birthplace, since becoming president.