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Kenyan air force targets al-Shabaab camps after university attack

Kenya's air force air-bombed two Somalian al-Shabaab camps on Sunday in the first major military response to last week's university massacre.

The Interior Ministry yesterday said the son of a Kenyan government official has been identified as one of the suspects involved in the killing of at least 148 people at Garissa University College.

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535 students unaccounted for in Kenyan college attack

Some 535 students remain unaccounted for at a Kenyan university attacked by gunmen today, according to the country's national disaster agency.

Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said 280 out of 815 students at Garissa University College in the town of Garissa in northeastern Kenya has been accounted for.

He said efforts were underway to trace the remaining students.

Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the attack and claim to be holding hostages inside the campus.

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