Early Thursday afternoon at Garissa University in Kenya,Gunmen attacked a university campus in eastern Kenya early Thursday, clashing with guards, forcing their way into dormitories, taking hostages and singling out non-Muslims, the authorities said.
Somali Islamist militant group takes responsibility for the massacre.
Kenya’s interior minister, Joseph Nkaissery, said that 147 people had been killed, including four attackers — making it the deadliest terrorist attack in the country since the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
Islamist gunmen burst into the university before dawn Thursday, shooting students and taking hostages during early morning prayer services.
At one point, the attackers cornered a building in which 360 students live, but some of the students escaped, Nkaissery said.
Kenyan forces cleared three of four dormitories and had cornered the militants in the last one, the Interior Ministry explained.
"This is a moment for everyone throughout the country to be vigilant as we continue to confront and defeat our enemies," Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said.
There are usually four guards at the campus gates overnight, Jackstone Kweyu, dean of students, told Kenya's Citizen TV.
The attack was deadlier than an Al-Shabaab attack on the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi in September 2013 that left 67 people dead.
The minister contended on Thursday night that the harrowing siege at the university had ended.
Nigerians please say a prayer for Kenyans at this time .
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