President
Uhuru Kenyatta has announced three days of national mourning, following the
deaths of almost 150 people in one of the worst massacres in the country's
history.
In his first
televised address since the attack ended on Thursday, Kenyatta condemned the
"barbaric slaughter" and asked for help from the Muslim community in
rooting out radical elements.
He said, "My
administration shall respond in the severest way possible to the attack and any
other attack to us,", speaking from the capital, Nairobi, on Saturday.
"Thursday wounded Kenya, Thursday wounded families, friends and
communities of the victims of the attack."
Al Qaeda-linked
al-shabab gunmen killed around 150 people at Garissa University College campus
in retaliation for Kenyan participation in a mission against Shabab in Somalia.
Most of the victims in Thursday's massacre were students attending the college
situated some 200 km (120 miles) from the Somali border.
Four of the
attackers were killed after a 15-hour siege, while one was reportedly arrested.
In his Saturday
address to the nation, Kenyatta said the task of countering terrorism had been
made all the more difficult by the fact that "the planners and financiers
of this brutality are deeply embedded in our communities."
"We will
fight terrorism to the end," Kenyatta said.
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