147 Kenyan University Students Killed by Al-Shabab Militants
Gunmen from the militant Islamist group al-Shabab yesterday killed at least 147 people and took students hostage at a university in north-eastern Kenya.
But by evening, the operation to secure the Garissa University College campus was over, with all four attackers killed, Kenyan government officials said.
Officials said 587 students had been evacuated, 79 of whom were injured.
An overnight curfew was imposed in parts of the country after the incident.
Four counties near the Kenya-Somalia border, Garissa, Wajir, Mandera and Tana River, would have dusk-to-dawn curfews imposed, disaster MANAGEMENT officials said.
Nine critically injured students were airlifted to the capital Nairobi for treatment, they added.
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