Kenya university attack (Photo : REUTERS/Herman Kariuki)
The al-Shabaab militants gave out another threat that the terrorizing of Kenya was far from over just two days after the slaughter in Garrisa University College in Kenya.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the SITE intelligence monitoring group reported that al-Shabab said: "Kenyan cities will run red with blood. No amount of precaution or safety measures will be able to guarantee your safety, thwart another attack or prevent another bloodbath."
President Uhuru Kenyatta was rather defiant when he addressed the nation in response to the attacks and the statement of al-Shabab.
He said that they will counter the terrorism. "I guarantee that my administration shall respond in the fiercest way possible," he added.
Three days of national mourning for the victims of the attack has been declared.
The Kenyan officials said that arrests were made with five people who were suspected of involvement in the massacre, Washington Post reported. The Kenyan government was pursuing other suspects, including Mohamed Mohamud-who is a former teacher at a Kenyan madrassa (or Islamic school), and the suspected mastermind of the terrorist attack.
"We will bring all of them to justice," Kenyatta said.
Kenyatta added that his administration have placed a reward amounting to $US220, 000 to whoever could provide information leading to Mohamud's arrest.
Mwenda Njoka, Interior Ministry spokesman, said in a Twitter post that there were three people arrested who were trying to cross into Somalia. Inside the Garissa University College campus, two other suspects were captured.
The assault on the university on Thursday is by far the worst terrorist attack in Kenya since the bombing of US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998 that killed 224 people.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said, in a Twitter post, that three people trying to cross into Somalia were arrested by Kenyan security forces.
Many of the Garissa residents directed their emotions by turning out in the traffic-clogged streets on Saturday to view the bodies of four men suspected to have taken part in the attack, despite the militants threatening Kenya with another assault.
