Kenyan Defense Force soldiers guard the main entrance of Garissa campus, the site of Thursday's attack by gunmen, in Garissa April 3, 2015. REUTERS/Noor Khamis
GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) - The death toll in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university is likely to climb above 147, a government source and media said on Friday, as anger grew among local residents over what they say as a government failure to prevent bloodshed.
Strapped with explosives, masked al Shabaab gunmen stormed the Garissa University College campus, some 200 km (120 miles) from the Somali border, in a pre-dawn rampage on Thursday.
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