The United States (US) State Department announced that it had doubled the bounty set for two bombers suspected to have participated in the August 7, 1998 bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
The bounty on Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah and Sayf al-Adl was raised to $10 Milion up from $5 Million following the 2018 commemoration of the tragic event.
Both are Egyptian nationals who are suspected to be in their 50s at present and are wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for having helped to plan the attack.
Sayf al-Adl, a former colonel in the Egyptian army, is said to have been the explosives expert in the attack that killed 212 East Africans and 12 Americans.
[caption caption="US Marines stand guard at the 1998 Nairobi embassy bombing as volunteers dig their way through the rubble"]
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His counterpart, Abdullah is said to have operated the Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan years prior to the attack.
20 people are currently serving sentences in the US over the twin attack while 10 others within the East Africa region have died of natural causes or killed in unclear circumstances.
The rewards were offered by the State Department's "Rewards for Justice" initiative that was started in 1984.
The programme has so far paid a total of $145 Million to more than 90 people who have "provided actionable information leading to the arrest of suspected terrorists or to the prevention of attacks."
Survivor tales of the bombings continues to amaze members of the public 20 years on as some narrate how the attack changed their lives forever.
The US authorities released the following photos of the two suspects that show what they looked like at the time of the bombing and how they may look like to date.
[caption caption="Poster shared by the US State Department for wanted terror suspects Ahmed Abdullah and Sayf al-Adl"]
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