Kenya will 'run red with blood'
The terrorist group that massacred almost 150 people at a university have threatened to make the streets of Kenya "run red with blood".
The attack on Garissa University College was the first of many to come, al-Shabaab has claimed, saying that nothing will stop its atrocities.
"No amount of precaution or safety measures will be able to guarantee your safety, thwart another attack or prevent another bloodbath from occurring in your cities," the statement said.
In the message, directed at the Kenyan public, al-Shabaab vowed a long and gruesome campaign of violence that will make Kenya's cities "run red with blood".
Four masked militants from the group stormed the Garissa university campus as students slept at around 5.30am local time on Thursday, going from dormitory to dormitory to hunt down Christians.
One student who survived heard militants opening doors and asking those hiding inside if they were Muslim or Christian.
"If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot," he said. "With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die."
The al-Qaeda affiliated group claimed the attack was retribution for Kenya's operations against it in Somalia, where al-Shabaab originates, and mistreatment of Muslims.
The death toll from the siege has risen to 148, Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said on Friday.
Police killed the four suspected militants who carried out the massacre after cornering them 15 hours after the siege started but five more people suspected of involvement have been arrested.
SHE HID IN A CLOSET FOR 2 DAYS
A survivor of Kenya's university massacre who hid in a wardrobe for two days too terrified to come out was rescued safely yesterday, dehydrated but apparently unharmed, Kenya Red Cross said.
The 19-year old woman was initially too scared to come out until a university lecturer she knew came to convince her that the police officers were not the Shebab gunmen who carried out the killing of nearly 150 of her fellow students, police said.
The BBC said she told them she drank "body lotion when she felt hungry."
Kenyan troops searching the building were alarmed when they heard sounds coming from inside a wardrobe.
Four survivors were also found on Friday, Shiundu said.
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