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Total massacre! 147 killed in Kenyan varsity attack
The number of people killed in the attack by al-Shabab Islamist militants on a university in north-eastern Kenya has risen to 147, Kenyan government officials said.
The operation to secure the Garissa University College campus is now over, with all four attackers killed, they added.
Officials said 587 students had been evacuated, 79 of whom were injured.
An overnight curfew is being implemented in parts of the country.
The students have all been evacuated now the siege has ended, Kenyan officials said
All students have been accounted for, said the authorities.
Four counties near the Kenya-Somalia border, Garissa, Wajir, Mandera and Tana River, would have dusk-to-dawn curfews imposed, disaster management officials said.
Nine critically injured students were airlifted to the capital Nairobi for treatment, they added.
But each student had been accounted for by the end of the evacuation.
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