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POLICE have paraded the naked corpses of Somali al-Qaeda-linked
al-Shabab gunmen who slaughtered almost 150 people in one of Kenya’s
worst massacres, hours after the militants threatened “another
bloodbath”.
On show ... The bodies of the suspected
attackers on the Garissa university are paraded in front of the public
as a vehicle drives through the main road of the town.
Five men have been arrested in connection with Thursday’s attack, where the gunmen staged a one-day siege at the university in the north-eastern town of Garissa.
Earlier on Saturday, the al-Shabab warned of a “long, gruesome war” unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia. Meanwhile, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has warned his government will respond to their killing in the severest way possible.
Condemning what he called the barbaric medieval slaughter, Kenyatta has declared three days of national mourning.
He’s said in a televised national address that his government will respond in the severest way possible to the attack and his country will stand up against such threats.
Hours after the group’s warning, police paraded four corpses
piled on top of each other face down in the back of a pick up truck
followed by a huge crowd, saying the grim display was to see if anyone
could identify the assailants.
But some threw stones at the bodies as they passed, others jeered and shouted at the dead.
Meanwhile, forensic investigators continued to scour the site where one student shocked security forces — who had said all students were accounted for — by emerging unharmed from a wardrobe where she had hidden for more than two days.
A Kenya Red Cross spokeswoman said Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, was traumatised and dehydrated but physically unharmed and undergoing assessment by doctors.
Thursday’s attack on Garissa University, situated near the border with Somalia, claimed 148 lives, including 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
“Those children were our future, so part of our future has been destroyed,” Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said on Friday.
More than 600 students from the now closed university on Saturday boarded buses for the home towns around the country.
The massacre was Kenya’s deadliest attack since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, and the bloodiest ever assault by the al-Shabab militants.
Interior ministry spokesman, Mwenda Njoka, said five arrests
had already been made, including three “co-ordinators” captured as they
fled towards Somalia, and two others in the university.
The name of the three suspected organisers were not given, but Njoka said the two arrested on campus included a security guard at the university, and a Tanzanian named as Rashid Charles Mberesero.
The news comes as a teenage girl was found alive in a closet two days after the massacre.
On show ... The bodies of the suspected
attackers on the Garissa university are paraded in front of the public
as a vehicle drives through the main road of the town. Five men have been arrested in connection with Thursday’s attack, where the gunmen staged a one-day siege at the university in the north-eastern town of Garissa.
Earlier on Saturday, the al-Shabab warned of a “long, gruesome war” unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia. Meanwhile, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has warned his government will respond to their killing in the severest way possible.
Condemning what he called the barbaric medieval slaughter, Kenyatta has declared three days of national mourning.
He’s said in a televised national address that his government will respond in the severest way possible to the attack and his country will stand up against such threats.
Display ... Women in the crowd cover
their faces to protect against the smell as authorities display the
bodies of the alleged attackers.
Members of the public gather outside
the hospital mortuary, waiting to view the bodies of the alleged
attackers involved in the killings at Garissa University College.
But some threw stones at the bodies as they passed, others jeered and shouted at the dead.
Meanwhile, forensic investigators continued to scour the site where one student shocked security forces — who had said all students were accounted for — by emerging unharmed from a wardrobe where she had hidden for more than two days.
A Kenya Red Cross spokeswoman said Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, was traumatised and dehydrated but physically unharmed and undergoing assessment by doctors.
Thursday’s attack on Garissa University, situated near the border with Somalia, claimed 148 lives, including 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
Found ... Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, survived the attack on Garissa University College.
More than 600 students from the now closed university on Saturday boarded buses for the home towns around the country.
The massacre was Kenya’s deadliest attack since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, and the bloodiest ever assault by the al-Shabab militants.
Gunmen from Somalia's Shebab
Islamists stormed the University campus killing some 148 people,
included 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
The name of the three suspected organisers were not given, but Njoka said the two arrested on campus included a security guard at the university, and a Tanzanian named as Rashid Charles Mberesero.
The news comes as a teenage girl was found alive in a closet two days after the massacre.
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