The Kenyan government has provided four helicopters to airlift scores of victims who were critically injured on Thursday terrorist raid at Garissa University College (GUC) as the death toll hits 147.
Ten National Youth Service buses were also deployed to provide transport for over 300 students camping at the local military camp since Thursday afternoon after they were rescued from the hand of death.
Addressing the students at the Garissa military camp, the interior cabinet secretary Joseph Ole Nkaissery said the airplanes will transport the injuries that included some security officers to Nairobi to receive specialised medical care.
He said, the incident has shocked the country and the international community and the government is determined to ensure that it will lessen the trauma and burden facing the affect students and their families.
"The students will be boarded into separate buses depending on the route it's taken to their area. For instance, those coming from western region such as Kakamage, Busia and Kisumu will be boarded in the same bus so that it will ease their transportation, " he added.
"The security officers are mobbing up the college to ensure it's safe for the students to access back and salvage their documents and other property they may have left behind during the attack. The government has successfully ended the students' hostage with killing of the 4 terrorists", He noted.
"The Kenya government will not be intimidating by the terrorists who resorted killing to innocent students and as government we are determined to fight back the terrorism the best we can and I'm confident we shall win this war against our enemies", he assured Kenyans.
Speaking at the same function, Education CS Prof. Jacob Kimanyi announced the indefinite closure of the university.
"All the affected students will be redeployed to Moi University, which is the mother university so that their learning calendar isn't disrupted by an act of terrorist. As ministry in conjunction with ministry of health we shall offer Social-psycho trauma healing to the affected students and their parents," he noted.
Kaimanyi said security of all learning institutions in the country will be beefed up to deter any repeat of what has been witnessed in Garissa university college where over 147 students and their teaching staffs were massacred by Somali based al- Shabaab terrorist group
College has been sealed off by heavily combined security officers and nobody is allowed to access in or out. About 500 people, among them relatives, family members and friends of those killed, mill around the college, so as to identify the bodies of the deceased still trapped inside.
The smell of charred body and human blood emanated from the college miles away. The families living around the college deserted their homes following the Thursday terror siege on the only full-fledge university in Northeastern region.