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Tanzania detains suspects in embassy bombing
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| Most of the rescue teams vacated the Nairobi bombing site as a few key personnel tried to make contact with Rose, a woman trapped in the rubble for three days | |||||
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (CNN) -- The government of Tanzania announced Monday it had detained "three groups" of suspects in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in the capital, according to Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice.
"We don't know their precise identities," said Rice in an interview with CNN in Washington. "We hope this is a breakthrough in this case."
Rice said she did not know the nationalities of the suspects or what they may have said to investigators.
The announcement came as rescuers on Monday resumed their search for possible survivors of last week's near-simultaneous bombing of the U.S. Embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The blasts took a heavy toll: at least 192 were killed in Nairobi and nearly 5,000 injured. And at least 10 died in Dar es Salaam and 74 others were injured.
In Nairobi, search and rescue workers on Monday briefly halted their operation because of fears that a 22-story building damaged in the blast might collapse. But, after about 45 minutes, they were back at work.
Kenyan Red Cross workers say they believe that a woman named Rose, and possibly a second one named Jane, might still be alive in the ruins of the collapsed Ufundi Cooperative House, adjacent to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.
Israeli rescuers, who were using a 150-ton crane, drills and blowtorches, said they heard tapping inside the Ufundi building Monday morning, spurring them on in their search for Rose.
"Rose last spoke at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Since then, we've heard nothing. There's just no sound coming back. Jane hasn't been heard of for much, much longer," a Red Cross spokesman had said before the tapping was heard.
"This happened before, when Rose went quiet and then spoke again. She may be asleep. She may be unconscious. So you live in hope," he said.
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| Windows in buildings that were blocks away were shattered in the Kenyan blast | |
Sniffer dogs from the United States, France and Israel -- one with a cut nose from the sea of broken glass -- walked over rubble.
Gerard Bradford, head of a disaster response team from the United States, said his people were combing the building for missing Kenyan employees.
U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering said on Monday that 150 FBI agents were now at work in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as part of investigation efforts to find out who was behind the attacks, and how they were carried out.
Pickering also said that U.S. officials were checking a report that a guard waved away the presumed car bombers from the front of the embassy in Nairobi.
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| FBI crews investigate the wreckage of several vehicles destroyed in the Kenyan blast | |
The Washington Post on Monday quoted an unidentified U.S. Embassy official as saying the vehicle apparently containing the bomb in Nairobi first drove to the embassy's main entrance but was sent by guards to the rear, where the bomb exploded.
"They saved people's lives by sending it around back," the official told the Post. "If they hadn't done that, I don't think I would be around today talking to you."
As part of the investigative efforts, U.S. pathologists carried out post-mortems on the corpses of those killed in the Tanzania blast on Monday. Later in the day, they began releasing the 10 bodies to their families.
The bodies of 11 Americans killed in Nairobi were loaded onto a military aircraft Monday and began a flight to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland via Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
The 12th American victim, Jean Dalizu, who was married to a Kenyan, was to be buried in her adopted homeland.
As each of the flag-draped aluminum coffins was lifted into the U.S. Air Force C-141 aircraft, U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell raised her right hand -- still bandaged from the injuries she suffered in the Friday blast -- to her heart.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Bonaya Godana stood at attention nearby.
U.S. Marine and Navy honor guards carried 10 of the coffins, and a special Marine unit in camouflage uniforms carried the coffin of fallen comrade Sgt. Jesse N. Aliganga of Tallahassee, Florida.
