AL-SHABAB MUSLIM TERRORISTS HOLDING CHRISTIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS HOSTAGE IN KENYA
AL-SHABAB GUNMEN HAVE ATTACKED A COLLEGE CAMPUS IN THE TOWN OF GARISSA IN NORTHEAST KENYA, SHOOTING INDISCRIMINATELY IN DORMITORIES AND KILLING AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE AND WOUNDING 65 OTHERS, POLICE SAID.
“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.” Matthew 24:9 (KJV)
Witnesses said explosions and heavy gunfire rocked Garissa University College early on Thursday as the gunmen stormed the complex. Ambulances were seen driving injured students to local hospitals.
Al-Shabab: Christian hostages held in Kenya university
The gunmen from the Somalia-based group were holding an “unknown number of student hostages,” the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement. About “50 students have been safely freed”, the organisation said.
Terrified students streamed out of buildings, some young men shirtless, as arriving police officers hunkered down, taking cover, witnesses said.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group said their gunmen were holding Christian hostages inside the complex in revenge for Nairobi’s troops fighting in Somalia.
The gunmen divided students at the university between Muslims and non-Muslims, letting the Muslim students go, the group’s spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told AFP news agency by telephone.
Rage said the armed group had targeted Kenya for its involvement African Union mission against al-Shabab in Somalia.
“When our men arrived, they released some people, the Muslims, and it is them that alerted the government. We are holding the others hostage,” he said, adding those seized were Christians, but not saying how many there were.
Al-Shabab has carried out several attacks in Garissa and across Kenya in the past, including the 2013 attack on a shopping mall in the capital Nairobi.
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