Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday declared three days of national mourning after Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab gunmen entered a university campus and killed almost 150 people in one of the country’s worst massacres.
“I declare three days of mourning during which our flags will fly at half mast,” Kenyatta said in a televised national address from the capital Nairobi, condemning the “barbaric slaughter” in his first address since the attack ended on Thursday.
The leader also warned that planners and financiers of attacks like the one that took place in Garissa town are “deeply embedded in our communities”.
Kenyatta said his administration would “respond in the severest ways possible” to the Garissa attack, which occurred Thursday when four gunmen entered a campus and slaughtered students. The military moved in hours later and the gunmen were killed. Read more here.
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