Kenya arrests 5 over Garissa University attack
MOMBASA (Kenya) — Kenya said it arrested five people and are questioning them over the Garissa University College attack claimed by the militant group al-Shabaab that left almost 150 people dead.
Kenya Red Cross staff assist a woman after she viewed the body of a relative killed in Thursday's attack on a university, at Chiromo funeral home, Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, April 3, 2015. Photo: AP
MOMBASA (Kenya) — Kenya said it arrested five people and are questioning them over the Garissa University College attack claimed by the militant group al-Shabaab that left almost 150 people dead.
“They are under interrogation and we hope to make more arrests with their leads,” Mr Mwenda Njoku, a spokesman for the East African nation’s Interior Ministry, said by phone from the capital, Nairobi, today (April 4). Four of the people were detained as they attempted to cross the Kenya-Somali border, he said.
At least 147 people were killed and 79 injured when gunmen stormed the campus, about 330km north-east of Nairobi, before dawn on April 2, the Interior Ministry said. It was Kenya’s worst attack since al-Qaeda bombed the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998, killing more than 200.
Al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the attack, has waged an insurgency in Somalia since 2006 in a bid to impose Islamic law. Kenya has faced bombings of bars, churches, and markets for sending troops to Somalia. In 2013, an attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall left 67 dead. BLOOMBERG
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