What the records say
- When
- 2 Apr 2015
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 0.45° S, 39.66° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Garissa University College attack.
Summary
148 people are killed, the majority students, in a mass shooting at the Garissa University College in Kenya, perpetrated by the militant terrorist organization al-Shabaab.
4 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Anschlag auf das Garissa University College durch die islamistische Al-Shabaab-Miliz werden im kenianischen Garissa nahezu 150 Menschen getötet und…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “se produce una masacre en la Universidad de Garissa, en Kenia, de manos de Al-Shabbaab y que de acuerdo con la información oficial el número de víctimas se…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ケニア・ガリッサのガリッサ大学を銃を持った男が襲撃し、147名が死亡(ガリッサ大学襲撃事件)。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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