Students were seeking accommodation outside the campus in the town of Eldoret after it was revealed that four missing students allegedly joined the Somali Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has claimed responsibility for the April 2 gun attack on Garissa University that killed 148 people, student leader Alex Mbugua said.
University Vice Chancellor Richard Mibey said rumors that the four missing students had threatened to come back to attack the institution were causing the panic. Heavily armed policemen were deployed to the campus, which has about 30,000 people, but students still were not confident about their security.
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