Kenya's Garissa University restarts teaching after attack

Classes have resumed at the Garissa University College in Kenya where 148 students died in a gun attack last April.

However only a few students have turned up for its reopening. 

Security has been tightened at the university  nine months after the attack by militant Islamist group al-Shabab.   

Last year's attack was the deadliest so far by the Somali-based group in Kenya. 

Staff reported to work last week to get the campus in north-east Kenya ready.   

It has been closed since the attack and at the time some 650 students were offered places at a sister campus in Eldoret, western Kenya, to continue their studies.  

They are not expected to return to Garissa but the authorities are hoping to attract a new batch of students. 

SOURCE: BBC