Saudi- Kenyan students demand more security after Al Shabab attack
(MENAFN- Arab News) NAIROBI: Hundreds of Kenyans took to the streets Tuesday demanding greater security following last week's massacre by Somalia's Al-Shabab militants on the final day of mourning for the 148 people killed by the militants.
The demonstrators waved placards and chanted slogans as they marched on the streets of the Kenyan capital and the northeastern town of Garissa where the massacre was carried out.
'We are mourning the loss of our fellow comrades we have lost the vibrant blood that would have built tomorrow's Kenya' said Maureen Mucheri 21 an engineering student at Nairobi University.
Later hundreds gathered in a far quieter and deeply emotional demonstration in the capital carrying flowers and lighting candles in front of scattered white crosses to remember those lost at the end of the third and final day of national mourning.
The names of the victims were slowly read out amid the flickering candle light with the solemn crowd quietly repeating their names. Security forces meanwhile continued their hunt for those behind the university killings.
Earlier in Garissa several hundred people gathered at a rally where both Muslim and Christian leaders called for unity with local Muslim leader Abdullahi Salat condemning the 'violent and evil attack.'
In Nairobi some 200 students slapped vehicles with their hands as they marched through the streets chanting 'you are not safe you are not safe!'
The demonstrators waved placards and chanted slogans as they marched on the streets of the Kenyan capital and the northeastern town of Garissa where the massacre was carried out.
'We are mourning the loss of our fellow comrades we have lost the vibrant blood that would have built tomorrow's Kenya' said Maureen Mucheri 21 an engineering student at Nairobi University.
Later hundreds gathered in a far quieter and deeply emotional demonstration in the capital carrying flowers and lighting candles in front of scattered white crosses to remember those lost at the end of the third and final day of national mourning.
The names of the victims were slowly read out amid the flickering candle light with the solemn crowd quietly repeating their names. Security forces meanwhile continued their hunt for those behind the university killings.
Earlier in Garissa several hundred people gathered at a rally where both Muslim and Christian leaders called for unity with local Muslim leader Abdullahi Salat condemning the 'violent and evil attack.'
In Nairobi some 200 students slapped vehicles with their hands as they marched through the streets chanting 'you are not safe you are not safe!'
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