Kenyan
President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared three days of national mourning
after al-Qaeda-linked Shabab gunmen killed 148 people in one of his
country's worst massacres.
Five men have been arrested in connection with Thursday's attack, where the gunmen staged a one-day siege at the university in the northeastern town of Garissa.
Earlier on Saturday, the al-Shabab warned of a 'long, gruesome war' unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia.
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 that the 19-year old 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.
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared three days of national mourning after al-Qaeda-linked Shabab gunmen killed 148 people in one of his country's worst massacres.Five men have been arrested in connection with Thursday's attack, where the gunmen staged a one-day siege at the university in the northeastern town of Garissa.
Earlier on Saturday, the al-Shabab warned of a 'long, gruesome war' unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia.
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 that the 19-year old 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.
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/04/05/kenya-declares-three-days-of-mourning.html#sthash.EicsK734.dpuf
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared three days of national mourning after al-Qaeda-linked Shabab gunmen killed 148 people in one of his country's worst massacres.
Five men have been arrested in connection with Thursday's attack, where the gunmen staged a one-day siege at the university in the northeastern town of Garissa.
Earlier on Saturday, the al-Shabab warned of a 'long, gruesome war' unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia.
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 that the 19-year old 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.
Five men have been arrested in connection with Thursday's attack, where the gunmen staged a one-day siege at the university in the northeastern town of Garissa.
Earlier on Saturday, the al-Shabab warned of a 'long, gruesome war' unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia.
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 that the 19-year old 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.
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