02/04/2015
The Latest: Officials: 147 die in Kenya attack
9:30 p.m. (1830 GMT, 2:30 p.m. EDT) Kenya's national disaster operations center and the interior minister say the attack by al-Shabab gunmen on a college campus has claimed 147 lives, besides four attackers who also died. The interior minister said most of those killed Thursday were students but included two police officers, one soldier and two watchmen. The disaster center said plans are underway to evacuate students and other affected persons. It was by far the highest death toll in an attack by al-Shabab, an Islamic extremist group from neighboring Somalia, on Kenyan soil. 9:15 p.m. (1815 GMT, 2:15 p.m. EDT) Kenyan security officials at the scene of an attack by Islamic extremists on a...
