Kenya Holds 3 Days Mourning for 148 Victims Killed by al-shabab in Garissa University

Kenya is holding three days of mourning for the 148 victims of an attack on students by militant group al-Shabab. Easter ceremonies are being held to remember those who died on Thursday at Garissa University.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to respond to the attack "in the severest way possible". One of the gunmen has been identified as the son of a government official, the interior ministry has said. He was named as Abdirahim Abdullahi, whose father is a local chief in Mandera County in the north-east of the country.

"The father had reported to security agents that his son had disappeared from home... and was helping the police try to trace his son by the time the Garissa terror attack happened," ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said.

Abdullahi studied law in Nairobi and was an "upcoming lawyer", Mr Njoka added.

The four gunmen were killed during the siege, and officials said they were holding five people for questioning. The Kenyan Red Cross says that so far 54 of the victims have been identified by relatives at a morgue in the capital, Nairobi.

Buses are transporting more than 600 students and about 50 staff who survived the attacks to their hometowns.

Many survivors have been reunited with their families at Nairobi's Nyayo National Stadium which has been set up as a disaster centre.

Meanwhile a young Kenyan student has described how she drank body lotion because she was so thirsty while she hid from al-Shabab attackers for two days.