Militants Kill 147 In Kenyan University Attack
“If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot,” he said. “With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die.”
Reports: Al-Shabaab militants kill 15 in Kenya university attack
Collins Wetangula, the vice chairman of the university’s student union, said he was getting ready to take a shower when he heard gunshots and locked himself and three roommates in their room, the AP reported.
“All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are,” he said. “The gunmen were saying sisi ni al-Shabab (we are al-Shabab),” he said.
He told the AP he could hear the gunmen opening doors and asking people whether they were Muslims or Christians.
14 dead as gunmen storm Kenyan college
Fourteen people, including two police officers, have been killed and 65 wounded on Thursday when gunmen stormed Garissa University College in the northeastern Kenyan town of Garissa, police said.
Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the attack and claim to be holding hostages inside the campus.
535 students unaccounted for in Kenyan college attack
Some 535 students remain unaccounted for at a Kenyan university attacked by gunmen today, according to the country’s national disaster agency.
Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said 280 out of 815 students at Garissa University College in the town of Garissa in northeastern Kenya has been accounted for.
He said efforts were underway to trace the remaining students.
Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the attack and claim to be holding hostages inside the campus.