70 Students Killed in Islamist Group’s Attacks On Kenya University

02 April, Garissa

At least 70 students were massacred and 79 injured Thhursday when Somalia’s Shebab Islamist group raided a university in Kenya, the Interior Minister Joseph Nkaiserry said.

The conditions of nine of injured students are reported to be critical.

He told reporters that four gunmen had also been killed after Kenyan troops launched an assault on the building where the insurgents had holed up for over 12 hours.

The masked gunmen began the assault before dawn, using grenades to blast open the gates of the university in the northeastern town of Garissa, near the lawless border with war-torn Somalia, before attacking students as they slept.

The Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed the attack, the same insurgents who carried out the Westgate shopping mall massacre in Nairobi in September 2013, when four gunmen slaughtered at least 67 people in a four-day bloodbath.