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Benson Okuku Bwaku was a guard at the US Embassy in Nairobi who tried to avert the 1998 US Embassy bombings..

Bombings[]

On August 7th, 1998, Bwaku was at the gates of the US Embassy in Nairobi, when a car drove up to the gates. The man in the front passenger seat, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali, shouted at him to open the gates. Bwaku refused, but was fired on by Al-Owhali. When he opened the gates, Al-Owhali threw a stun grenade at him and the other guards before jumping out and running away. As Bwaku called for reinforcements, the driver, a man named Azzam, detonated a bomb, killing 213 people including himself and Bwaku.