One student killed in Kenya stampede
One Kenyan student has been killed and more than 100 others injured during a stampede after an electrical blast sparked fears of a terrorist attack by Takfiri militants.
The victim, a male junior at the University of Nairobi, was among panicked students who jumped out of an on-campus five-story dorm for fear of a possible attack by al-Shabab terrorists.
According to Peter Mbithi, vice chancellor of the University of Nairobi, the injured students were taken to hospital for medical care.
“It was around 5 a.m. and the transformer at the campus exploded about four or five times which made students mistake it for an attack,” Mbithi told the Associated Press.
“Most of them jumped out of their hostels thinking it was an al-Shabab attack…. There was no attack but because of what happened in Garissa the other day, they mistook it for an attack,” he added.
On April 2, four Gunmen from the al Qaeda-aligned group, al Shabab, stormed Garissa University College, in eastern Kenya, killing 148 people, 142 of whom students; and wounding at least 79 during a day-long siege.
Al-Shabab militants have carried out a string of revenge attacks in Kenya as well as neighboring Uganda over their participation in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) force.
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