Death toll from Kenya university attack rises to 147

‘The death toll from an attack by al-Shabab militants on a university in the town of Garissa in eastern Kenya has risen to 147, Kenyan government officials say.

The officials said that security forces killed all the four attackers who had taken hundreds of students hostage at the Garissa University College campus on Thursday.

The officials added that 587 students had been rescued, and 79 of them were injured during the rescue operation.’

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