Al-Shabaab attacks students in Garissa – 15 killed, unknown numbers taken hostage

#Garissaattack #alshabaab #kenya #gunmen #hostage Al-Shabaab militants stormed a university in Garissa, north-eastern Kenya and have killed at least 15, injured over 65 others while taking away an unknown number of students as hostage. This has been reported in bbc.com dated 2 April 2015.
Troops are engaging the gunmen and, from information available, it seems masked attackers had fired indiscriminately and the number of casualties could increase. The Al-Shabaab is linked to al-Qaeda, and it appears it was holding Christians as hostage while setting free the Muslims.

They have done such segregation earlier also. The hostages from the two groups had been separated, and 15 of the Muslims had already been released. This is what they had done previously namely, sparing the lives of Muslims while killing the non-Muslims.
Kenya's Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery has revealed to journalists that five masked gunmen are said to have stormed the university and one of them had been killed as he tried to flee. Moreover, out of 815 students, 535 had not yet been accounted for. The Kenyan Red Cross has added that about 50 students had been "safely freed", but an unknown number were still being held hostage by the militants.

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