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Kenya portal. v. t. e. On 2 April 2015, gunmen stormed the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people, [1] [2] and injuring at least 79. The militant groups Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab, which the gunmen claimed to belong to, took responsibility for the attack. [3] The gunmen took over 700 students hostage, freeing Muslims and ...
The casualties included school children who were to perform for the president and innocent traders from a nearby market. Garissa massacre: 1980 Garissa, North Eastern Province: over 3,000 deaths: The Garissa Massacre was a 1980 massacre of ethnic Somali residents by the Kenyan government in the Garissa District of the North Eastern Province, Kenya.
From late 2011 to 2014, Kenya experienced an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks. Kenyan government officials asserted that many of the murders and blasts were carried out by al-Shabaab in retaliation for Operation Linda Nchi, a coordinated military mission between the Somalian military and Kenyan military that began in October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict ...
April 2, 2024 at 11:52 AM. By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen. VANTAA (Reuters) - Teachers shut classroom doors to protect their pupils after a shooting incident at a school in the Helsinki suburb of ...
v. t. e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [4] Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. [5] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [6] including 62 civilians ...
By Essi Lehto, Louise Rasmussen. HELSINKI (Reuters) -The 12-year-old boy who shot and killed a fellow sixth-grader and severely injured two others at a school in Finland has explained that he was ...
By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen. HELSINKI (Reuters) -One child was killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year ...
The plan was not implemented. Instead, some schools post an armed guard outside the entrance. Kenya. The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has called on the Kenyan government to deploy firearms to teachers and offer security training to tutors following incidents of teachers in high-risk areas being killed by attackers.