After Killing 142 Students, Islamic Militant Group Threatens Another Bloodbath On Kenyans
Students at Kenya's Garissa university awoke on Thursday morning to the sound of gunmen prowling the campus, shooting at their classmates. Nearly 150 people were killed in what would become the deadliest attack yet by al-Shabab militants in Kenya.
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The al-Shabab militants, who earlier this week stormed Garissa University College in the worst attack on Kenyan soil since the 1998 US embassy bombing by al-Qaeda, have issued a chilling threat that its terrorising of Kenya was far from over.
The Islamic extremists attacked Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya on 2 April, slaughtering 148 people, including 142 students, three security officers, and injuring at least 79 others.
"Kenyan cities will run red with blood," al-Shabab said, the Washington Post reported citing the SITE intelligence monitoring group. The militants warned of "another bloodbath" and a "long, gruesome war" unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia.
al-Shabab militants warned that "no amount of precaution or safety measures will be able to guarantee" the safety of Kenyans, thwart another attack or "prevent another bloodbath."
Kenya's interior ministry has released this wanted poster of Garissa college attack suspect Mohammed Mohamud, also known as Dulyadin alias Gamadhere.
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Members of Kenya's police force look out from the back of a truck as it enters the Garissa university campus in the northeastern town
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta was defiant when he addressed the nation in response to the attacks and al-Shabab's statement
According to a report by TIME, since 2011, it is estimated that more than 300 people have been killed by terrorist attacks in Kenya
Kenya's security situation has continued to deteriorate since the 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall, where 67 people were killed. Late last year, al-Shabaab militants carried out two attacks in Mandera, also in Northern Kenya, according to the TIME report.
Kenyan soldiers prepare to sweep a building at Garissa University College after gunmen attacked the campus, in northeastern Kenya, on 2 April 2015
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The Kenyan Red Cross says that so far 54 of the victims have been identified by relatives at a morgue in the capital, Nairobi. Meanwhile, buses are transporting more than 600 students and about 50 staff who survived the attacks to their hometowns.
Both Christians and Muslims have denounced the attack
Most of those who died in the attack were studying at the college which opened in 2013 – it is part of Moi University, which is based in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, the BBC reported
Eunice Oganogo, 19, a freshman at the college, was comforted by relatives at the Nyayo National Stadium.
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A soldier walks with a student in Garissa
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Many Garissa residents channeled their emotions by turning out in the traffic-clogged streets Saturday to view the bodies of four men alleged to have taken part in the massacre, even as Somali militants issued a statement threatening Kenya with more attacks
People crowd around a mortuary window on Saturday April 4, to view the bodies of gunmen killed.
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