GARISSA — 2015 · Major Tragedy
The Garissa University Attack
Early on 2 April 2015 four gunmen entered Garissa University College in north-eastern Kenya. They took students hostage in the dormitories and in a day-long assault killed 148 people, 142 of them students, and wounded 79. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility; the attackers were killed at the scene. It was Kenya's deadliest attack since the 1998 US embassy bombing. In June 2019 a Nairobi court convicted three men of aiding the attack and belonging to a terrorist group; two received 41 years each and one life imprisonment, while a fourth defendant was acquitted.
- Date
- 2015
- Place
- Garissa County, Kenya, Garissa, KE
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Solved
- Coordinates
- -0.4520, 39.6460 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 2 April 2015Garissa University College was attacked.
- June 2016The alleged planner was killed in Somalia.
- 19 June 2019Three defendants were convicted.
- 3 July 2019They were sentenced to 41 years and life imprisonment.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Garissa University College attack en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Al Jazeera — Garissa attackers sentenced to long prison terms aljazeera.com ↗
- CNN — Three men found guilty of 2015 Garissa University attack cnn.com ↗
- Wikipedia
- Al Jazeera
- CNN
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