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KENYA: NAIROBI: BODIES OF 11 US BOMB BLAST VICTIMS FLOWN HOME

(10 Aug 1998) English/Nat The bodies of 11 of the 12 Americans killed in Friday's U-S embassy car bomb blast in Nairobi are on their final flight home. Draped in American flags, the coffins were gently loaded onto a U-S military aircraft on Monday as Kenyan and American officials paid tribute to their fallen comrades. Meanwhile, Red Cross officials say at least 40 people are unaccounted for and another 40 bodies still remain unidentified in the city morgue. It was a solemn farewell for the American victims of Friday's horror bomb blast. American flags draped the aluminium coffins of 11 of the victims as they were gently loaded onto a waiting military plane for their final flight home. Kenyan and American officials and U-S servicemen paid tribute to their fallen comrades in a simple but touching ceremony at Nairobi's Kenyatta International airport. U-S Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, herself injured in the blast, fought back the tears as she said goodbye to her colleagues. Marine and Navy honour guards carried 10 of the coffins, while a special Marine unit carried the coffin of their fallen comrade Sergeant Jesse N. Aliganga from Florida. The twelfth victim, Jean Dalizu, who was married to a Kenyan, will be buried in her adopted homeland. The bodies are to be flown to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland via Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. For many embassy workers, this is the first time since the blast, they have been able to reflect on the tragedy and those that perished in the blast. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We have not actually had time to ponder the losses that we have suffered. It has been 24 hours a day for many people. Our embassy doctor has been working 48 hours straight tending to the dying and dead. SUPER CAPTION: Chris Sharf, U-S Embassy Spokesman The powerful blasts in Nairobi and the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, took a terrible toll. As more than 1-hundred FBI agents investigate the two bombings U.S. officials refuse to speculate about which group could be responsible. What authorities do admit is the bombers were highly skilled, efficient and professional. And police are refusing to elaborate on the dozen suspects arrested in Dar-es-Salaam on Monday. The two bombs exploded just minutes apart, killing at least 2-hundred people in Nairobi and injuring another 5-thousand injured, while in Dar-es-Salaam, 10 were killed and 74 injured. Three days on and more and more mourners pay their respects to the innocent victims. Streams of people pass through the Muslim Cemetery in Nairobi - to say goodbye to loved ones - and they ask each other why such a tragedy occurred. Hospital lists of the dead and injured reinforce the scale of the devastation. The International Red Cross hopes lists like these will reunite families and help officials account for people who are still missing and identify unclaimed bodies. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We have at least forty persons who were working in that building, the collapsed building, who have gone missing. We have, as well, 40 unidentified bodies from the hospital morgues alone." SUPER CAPTION: Nina Galbe, International Red Cross Meanwhile Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi visited the devastated embassy site again on Monday. He told reporters there was little hope of finding any more survivors in the wreckage of the bombsite. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...