On Thursday, some Al-Shabab (Known to be from Somalia) gunmen attacked Garissa University which is located in Kenya. This is known to be the deadliest group attack in Eastern Africa.
The masked attackers – strapped with explosives and armed with AK-47s – singled out non-Muslim students at Garissa University College and then gunned them down without mercy, survivors said. Others ran for their lives with bullets whistling through the air.
Kenya’s northern and eastern regions near the Somali border have seen many attacks blamed on Al-Shabab. The group has vowed to retaliate against Kenya for dispatching troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight the militants following cross-border attacks.
Police identified a possible mastermind of the attack as Mohammed Mohamud, who is alleged to lead Al-Shabab’s cross-border raids into Kenya, and they posted a $220,000 bounty for him. Also known by the names Dulyadin and Gamadhere, he was a teacher at an Islamic religious school, or madrassa, and claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Makka, Kenya, in November that killed 28 people.
See the testimony of a one of the students below...
One of the survivors of Thursday’s attack, Collins Wetangula, told The Associated Press he was preparing to take a shower when he heard gunshots coming from Tana dorm, which hosts both men and women, 150 metres (yards) away. The campus has six dorms and at least 887 students, he said.
When he heard the gunshots, he locked himself and three roommates in their room, said Wetangula, who is vice chairman of the university’s student union.
“All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots. Nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are,” he said.
He added: “The gunmen were saying, ‘Sisi ni al-Shabab,”‘ – Swahili for “We are al-Shabab.”
He heard the attackers arrive at his dormitory, open the doors and ask if the people who had hidden inside were Muslims or Christians.
“If you were a Christian, you were shot on the spot,” he said. “With each blast of the gun, I thought I was going to die.”
The gunmen then started shooting rapidly, as if exchanging fire, Wetangula said.
“The next thing, we saw people in military uniform through the window of the back of our rooms who identified themselves as the Kenyan military,” he said. The soldiers took him and around 20 others to safety.
AFRICAN LIVES MATTER !!! THE WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR THEIR STORY AND HELP KENYA !! WHEN ONE PART IS AFFECTED THE WHOLE BODY BECOMES AFFECTED... AFRICANS ALL AROUND THE WORLD, LETS HELP AND SUPPORT KENYA !
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