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Kenyatta declares 3 days of Mourning after the Garissa Attack

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 Garissa Attack
Parents and relatives of those killed in the Garissa Attack are still identifying their relatives

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced three days of mourning following the killing of university Students at Garisaa University College on Thursday.

Flags will also fly at half mast.

In his televised address to the Nation on Saturday, Kenyatta said  Al Shabaab will not be able to create an Islamic caliphate in Kenya.

148 people died in the dawn attack on the university campus on Saturday including policemen who were guarding the institution.

The Al Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the massacre in which four terrorists we killed.

Kenyatta said Kenya would defend her territory and  the way of life of her people and urged more help from the country’s Muslim community in rooting out radical elements.

Kenyatta said the task of countering terrorism has been made more complex by the fact that the planners and financiers of this brutality are deeply embedded in the  communities.

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