CORRECTION-KENYA-SECURITY/COURT FILE University attack accused due in court

Record ID: 142914

  • Title: CORRECTION-KENYA-SECURITY/COURT FILE University attack accused due in court
  • Date: 24th August 2015
  • Summary: GARISSA, KENYA (FILE APRIL 2, 2015) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF GARISSA UNIVERSITY GARISSA, KENYA (FILE APRIL 2, 2015) (REUTERS) GARISSA RESIDENT RUNNING AFTER SOUND OF GUNSHOTS SOUND OF GUNFIRE GARISSA, KENYA (FILE APRIL 2, 2015) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) SECURITY PERSONNEL ON TRUCK AMBULANCE DRIVING FROM GARISSA UNIVERSITY MORE OF AMBULANCE DRIVING INTO A HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF INJURED ON A HOSPITAL STRETCHER GARISSA, KENYA (FILE - APRIL 02, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MEDICS PREPARING INJURED FOR AN AIRLIFT INJURED BEING LOADED ONTO A PLANE MORE OF INJURED INSIDE THE PLANE GARISSA, KENYA (FILE - APRIL 6, 2015) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS SECURITY PERSONNEL WALKING INSIDE GARISSA UNIVERSITY VARIOUS OF DESTRUCTION INSIDE THE UNIVERSITY COMPOUND VARIOUS OF BULLET HOLES ON THE WALLS OF STUDENTS DORMITORY VARIOUS OF STUDENTS BELONGINGS NAIROBI, KENYA (FILE - APRIL 9, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HEARSE TRANSPORTING BODIES AT MORGUE VARIOUS BODIES BEING OFFLOADED FROM HEARSE AND TAKEN INTO THE MORGUE VARIOUS OF RELATIVES REGISTERING THEIR LOVED ONES NAMES AT THE MORGUE VARIOUS OF RELATIVES WAILING AT THE MORTUARY COFFIN CONTAINING A STUDENT'S BODY BEING TAKEN TO THE HEARSE BY MORTICIANS VARIOUS OF PORTRAITS OF VICTIMS OUTSIDE MORGUE
  • Embargoed: 8th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA445AI9RRB419G46564JON3ZYC
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS VIDEO CONVERTED FROM 4:3
    Five suspects are due in court on Monday (August 24) over the militant attack on Garissa University which left 148 people dead.
    Hooded gunmen stormed the Kenyan college campus in the north eastern town in the early hours of April 2 this year, setting off explosions and exchanging gunfire with security services for several hours.
    Chilling survivor testimonies recounting how gunmen from Somalia's al Shabaab militant group hunted down and killed students shocked Kenyans and the world.
    The attackers shot their way into the campus in a pre-dawn attack, sparing Muslim students but killing Christians. Police encircled the campus and were joined by Kenyan soldiers as the standoff continued for more than 15 hours.
    Al Shabaab militants have killed more then 400 people in Kenya since April 2013 with the government struggling to stop fighters and weapons coming across the 700 km border with Somalia.
    Kenya has shown no inclination to pull out of Somalia where its troops, part of an U.N.-backed African Union peacekeeping mission, have wrestled swathes of territory from the Islamist group.
    Western diplomats, however, say this loss of territory has not weakened al Shabaab's capacity to carry out one-off guerilla-style attacks in native Somalia or further abroad.
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