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Gunmen storm Kenya university; at least 15 dead, many hostages feared
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. Kenya's National Disaster Operation Centre added that 280 of 815 students had been accounted for, with efforts under way to track the others.
Witnesses said explosions and heavy gunfire rocked Garissa University College early on Thursday. Ambulances were seen driving injured students to local hospitals.
The attackers were holding an “unknown number of student hostages,” the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement. Some “50 students have been safely freed,” the organization said.
Terrified students streamed out of buildings, some men shirtless, as arriving police officers took cover, witnesses said. Even as security forces cornered the gunmen in a dorm where they could be holding hostages, survivors described a harrowing scene, where people were mercilessly gunned down and bullets whistled through the air as they ran for their lives.
The Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre said on its Twitter feed that “65 have been received by the Garissa Level 5 Hospital from the #GarissaAttack." The number of wounded has been escalating steadily throughout the event.
Most of the wounded had been hit by gunfire and four were in a critical condition, the center tweeted, and four had been airlifted to Nairobi for treatment, it said.
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