Al Shabaab claims fatal university raid

At least 14 people were killed on Thursday when Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a Kenyan university campus, taking Christians hostage and engaging security forces in an extended shootout.

With scores of students wounded and hundreds unaccounted for, police and soldiers surrounded Garissa University College.

They sealed off the compound and were trying to flush out the gunmen, Kenyan police chief Joseph Boinet said.