At Embassy in Tanzania, Salvage Work Underway
A day after a powerful bomb nearly destroyed the U.S. Embassy building here in a quiet tree-covered neighborhood, employees returned Saturday to salvage equipment and documents. At least eight people died and 65 were injured, and officials gave up hopes of finding anyone alive under the debris.
Police cordoned off the area with yellow tape that had been borrowed from a utility company. The area was littered with broken hubcaps, twisted metal pieces of cars, frames of bicycles and mounds of plaster from the fallen building.
Prime Minister Frederick Sumaye, who surveyed the scene Saturday, said police were awaiting the arrival, possibly today, of an FBI team to start investigations.
Sections of the right corner of the four-story white embassy building have been blasted away, and a 2-yard-wide crater just outside what was the main gate marks the place where the bomb went off.
News reports said the device was planted in an embassy gasoline tanker and exploded as the vehicle was pulling into the compound.
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