known number’ of hostages in Kenya university attack: Red Cross
By AFP
02 April 2015 |
10:02 am
Gunmen were on Thursday holding an "unknown number of student hostages" at a university in northern Kenya after storming the campus at dawn, the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement.
Gunmen were on Thursday holding an “unknown number of student hostages” at a university in northern Kenya after storming the campus at dawn, the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement.
Some “50 students have been safely freed”, the organisation said. Fighting was continuing, however, with the gunmen now holed up in a student dormitory hostel, government officials said.
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