More than 140 dead in attack on university in Kenya.
Kenya's National Disaster Management Centre has updated the death toll from today's (2) attack at Garissa University in eastern Kenya to 147; according to the centre, most of the victims are students; the Somali Islamist extremist group Shebab claimed responsibility for the attack.
Brazil Agency - Kenya's National Disaster Management Centre has updated the death toll from today's (2) attack at Garissa University in eastern Kenya to 147. According to the centre, most of the victims are students. The Somali Islamist extremist group Shebab claimed responsibility for the attack.
The previous official count reported that 70 people had died. "[There are] 147 confirmed deaths in the Garissa bombing," the center reported. The attack was the most violent in Kenya since the attack on the United States Embassy in 1998.
The operation carried out by Kenyan security forces to retake control of the university, seized by a Shebab commando early Thursday morning, "ended with all four terrorists dead," the agency added. The recapture occurred almost 16 hours after the start of the attack in Garissa, 150 kilometers from the border with Somalia.
"Kenya is at war with Somalia. Our men are still in the interior and fighting. The mission is to kill those who are against Shebab," said Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, spokesman for the Islamist group, by telephone, claiming responsibility for the attack.