Four dead, scores wounded as gunmen storm Kenyan college
At least four people were killed and more than 40 wounded on Thursday when masked gunmen stormed a college in a Kenyan town near the border with Somalia, trapping students inside and exchanging gunfire with security forces over several hours.
Police and soldiers surrounded the campus at the Garissa University College and were attempting to flush out the gunmen, Joseph Boinet, Kenya's inspector general, said in a statement. "The attackers shot indiscriminately while inside the university compound," he said. The gunmen may have taken hostages, a policewoman at the scene told Reuters. No group claimed responsibility for the raid. Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which has links to Al Qaeda, has carried out several attacks in Garissa and across Kenya in the past.
