TANZANIA: AREA AROUND BOMBED US EMBASSY SEALED OFF

Описание: (9 Aug 1998) English/Nat
U-S Marines put a cordon up around the bombed American embassy in Dar es Salaam as teams of U-S personnel began arriving in Tanzania to investigate Friday's car bomb attack which killed 10 people and injured 74.
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, who toured the scene on Sunday, said the attack was an "inhuman, evil, despicable" act.
And at a church service in the capital, prayers were said for the people who died in the explosion.
Two days after a blast ripped through the American embassy in the Tanzanian capital, the area has been tightly sealed off.
Debris and rubble marks the site of the explosion but the solid construction of the Israeli-built embassy may have prevented the carnage of a similar bomb in Kenya.
It was built by security-conscious Israel, which takes extraordinary precautions to protect against terrorist acts.
The building used to house the Israeli embassy in Tanzania before it was closed and the Americans moved in.
Another reason for the lower death toll may have been the location - a quiet tree-lined neighbourhood away from the centre of Dar es Salaam.
The president of Tanzania who was given a tour of the area to inspect the damage said the perpetrators were enemies of the people.
He vowed they would be caught and added his personal reaction to the tragedy.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
" Very angry, very angry. It's inhuman, it's evil, it's despicable. A terrible misuse of science and technology. This thing is completely alien to our history, alien to our political culture and we'll contain it, we'll contain it, we'll do everything to contain this kind of violence, this kind of behaviour."
SUPER CAPTION: Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian President
Some of those killed have been taken to the local morgue.
Eight of the dead worked at the embassy, the other two were in the cab of a water tanker truck that was servicing the building.
Meanwhile, the difficult task of working out how the attack was carried out gets underway.
F-B-I agents, U-S counter-terrorism operatives and State Department officials began arriving on Sunday to investigate the bombing.
Scores of Marines also were flying in.
The F-B-I has sent another 60 investigators to Nairobi to determine what explosive devices were used in the two attacks.
Local press quoted Tanzania's Police Commissioner as saying initial investigations indicate the bomb was planted on a petrol tanker that belonged to the embassy.
The tanker was apparently driving into the main gate at the time of the explosion.
A church service was held in the Catholic cathedral, St Joseph's, where prayers were held for those who died.

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