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Garissa attacks: Kenya in Mourning

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Kenyan families mourning their loved ones.
Most of the injured people in the Garissa Attack were flown to Nairobi for specialised treatment while some bodies were picked from the University compound.

Relatives of students who were killed by Al Shabaab militants at the Garissa University College in North Eastern Kenya have gone to identify bodies at the University Comound.

The militants killed at least 147 people.

CCTV’s Kofa Mrenje who is at at Garissa University says ambulances have been leaving the campus with bodies.

The students have also been leaving with their suitcases after the institution authorities asked them to go home.

A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed across north-eastern Kenya.

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Al Shabaab has said several times that it is fighting Kenya to revenge on the countries forces presence in Somalia

The gunmen struck the campus at dawn with guns killing anyone in sight. Later in the day the Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the slaughter of 147 students.

At least 79 people were injured most of the students with severe injuries.

The attackers were eventually cornered in a hostel by Kenyan security forces. Four of them died when their suicide vests detonated. A fifth gunman was reportedly arrested.

More than 500 students managed to escape. Most of the bodies were taken to Nairobi while some were identified and picked by relatives from the university Campus.

The militants are reported to have singled out Christians and shot them.

A spokesman later confirmed that the group – linked to al-Qaeda – was responsible.

The group has attacked Kenya on several occasions claiming they are on a revenge mission against Kenya for sending its troupes inside Somalia to fight the group.

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Muhammad Mohamud is said to be the mastermind of the Garissa attacks, he is aid to have been a one time school teacher in Garissa

Al-Shabab was also blamed for the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi in 2013 in which 67 people died.

The government has offered a reward of $53,000 (£36,000) for the man it says planned the killing – Mohamed Kuno, a former Kenyan school teacher, now thought to be in Somalia.

The heavily armed gunmen killed two security guards first, then fired indiscriminately at students, many of whom were still asleep in their dormitories.

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