Trial of suspects in the 2015 Garissa University attack to resume at Milimani Courts

Tanzanian national Rashid Charles Mberesero (L) stands inside the dock with Osman Abdi Dakane (2nd L), Sahal Diriye Hussein (C), Hassan Aden Hassan (2nd R), Mohamed Abdi Abikar (R) at the Milimani Law Courts in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, June 4, 2015. The five men were charged in connection with an attack by Somali Islamist gunmen on Garissa University./REUTERS

NAIROBI—The Garissa University College terror attack case in which 147 students were killed will resume on January 21 at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi.

When the case was mentioned yesterday, Milimani senior principal magistrate Martha Mutuku said the hearing date remain unchanged before trial magistrate Francis Andayi.

During the last hearing, a senior police officer tabled photos taken at the institution when students were butchered on April 2, 2015.

Frank Anunda, based at Nairobi DCI headquarters, produced 159 photos of victims, four terrorists who were gunned down and that of one of the accused Rashid Charles, a Tanzanian.

Anunda told the court two of the dead terrorists were lawyers from Mandera. They were graduates of University of Nairobi.

He said the third terrorist was from South Sudan and another was a student in Mandera.

Anunda was testifying in a case where Rashid is charged alongside Mohamed Abdikar, Hassan Aden Hassan, Sahal Diriye and Osman Abdi over the terror attack.

Led in his evidence by senior state counsel Ducan Ondimu, he said the terrorists accessed the university through the main gate.

Over 140 students were killed in 2015 when gunmen stormed the university at dawn and wrecked havoc in what is now Kenya’s second worst mass killing after the 1998 Nairobi US embassy.

The court also heard that Rashid, one of the terroist found alive was found by police officers who were rescuing students.

He was found hiding under the bed, covered with a mattress. When interrogated, he lied he was a student at the institution and could not tell the police the course he was undertaking.

Earlier another senior police officer produced in court four AK 47s, 713 live ammunition and 1,729 spent cartridges used by terrorists.