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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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New survivor found two days after college siege

Cynthia Cheroitich spoke of her relief at being found after her ordeal. Credit: APTN

A new survivor of the Garissa University massacre has been found, two days after the college came under siege from Islamic extremists.

Cynthia Charotich, 19, had remained undetected in the college building since Thursday and was only found at 10am this morning.

The teenager said she had hidden herself in a large cupboard and covered herself with clothes after gunmen from the al Shabaab group stormed the building and had not believed that rescuers urging her to come out were there to help.

"I was just praying to my God saying that if it has come to my day it has reached but if it is not yet, let God decide whatever he likes.

"At first I did not believe it [when Kenyan police came to rescue her], at first I was thinking that maybe they were the al-Shaabab, so I said 'how do I know that you are the Kenyan police?' Then they brought our professor, the principal, and then they told us this is your teacher, so you are safe now."

– Cynthia Charotich,

According to Kenyan medical staff, 148 people were killed during Thursday's attack.

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