04/04/2015

Families mourn victims of Kenya campus terror attack

Peter Kinuthia#8217;s battered Nokia beeped early Thursday: #8220;Alshabab R killing us goodbye if we won#8217;t make it I loved you all,#8221; read the panicked message from his daughter, Salome. The young student was trapped inside Garissa University College where at least 148 people died Thursday in an attack by the Somalian Islamist militant group Shabab, whose gunmen targeted Christians on the multidenominational campus. The devastated 70-year-old farmer called Salome back immediately. She sent another message, saying she couldn#8217;t speak. When he called again half an hour later, the phone was off. Kenyan judge suspends portion of controversial new security law Robyn Dixon...
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