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Kenya Garissa Attack Victims Remembered Through #147NotJustANumber Twitter Trend
David Tomno Ngetich, right, whose niece Romana Chelagat Sambu, 21, died in the Garissa University College attacks, talks with other relatives who lost family members, as they sit under a tent in the courtyard of the Chiromo Funeral Parlour in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, April 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Mugdha Variyar, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
GARISSA, Kenya (International Business Times)—After the Al-Shabaab attack on Kenya’s Garissa University left 148 students dead last Thursday, Twitterati have taken it upon themselves to ensure the victims are remembered, by trending the hashtag #147notjustanumber.
Under the hashtag, friends and relatives are sharing photos of the victims on Twitter, as the nation mourns the deadliest attack on its soil since the 1998 bombing at the US embassy in Nairobi.
Four terrorists stormed into the hostels of Garissa University on Thursday morning, gunning down nearly 150 students and staff, before they were shot dead by armed forces.
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