From Crux

Faculty and administrators at Garissa University College returned to work Monday, nine months after a bloody massacre of mainly Christian students by Somalia’s al-Shabab militants forced its closure.

Government officials and some analysts hailed the reopening of the campus in Kenya’s northeastern region as a defeat for terrorists.

On April 2, gunmen wielding AK-47s stormed the college and held it for more than 10 hours. By the end of the siege, 148 people, mainly Christian students, lay dead in the bloodbath, the deadliest in Kenya. Al-Shabab, al-Qaida’s affiliate in Somalia, claimed responsibility.

But only about 60 students are expected to attend when classes resume Monday. Before the attack, the university had about 800 students.

Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Alessandro of the Garissa Diocese welcomed the reopening, but said only local people, mainly Muslims, were arriving at the institution, the only university in the largely Muslim north.

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