. >> well with me is mary harper africa editor if the bbc world service. mary we're going to show our viewers some pictures now from the scene. and of course, there are relatives arriving knowing there's been this massacre very difficult. they're struggling even to cope with the number of bodies. >> exactly. at the moment the security forces are continuing to go through the university collecting bodies. there are at least 147 for them to collect. and the morgue in garissa can only hope for four so it really is a very very difficult situation. relatives who are arriving there also flying some of the bodies to fienairobi, for the relatives to collect from there. and they're also planning to bus more than 500 students who managed to escape this terror they're also being bused out of garissa to their home areas. >> we have heard from a few of those students who got out, that christians were singled out. >> yes, al shabaab spoke to me yesterday, and they explained that was very much their plan from the beginning, was that they were going to separate out the musl

mary harper is africa editor for the bbc world service. she said security at the university was not boosted, despite concerns by students that it could well be targeted. >> what's so shocking is that there were actually notices went up according to the students on april the 1st the day before the attack that people should be vigilant of a possible attack by militants. one student said that they thought it was a joke because it was april fools' day. the very next day, the university was attacked. and the students say that there were only two security guards there. garissa is the town that has been attacked -- more people have died from al shabaab attacks in garissa than anywhere else. if you add it all up over the years. why there were only two security guards at a place where the government said was a place at risk of being targeted was unfathomable. >> there are also reports from other sources that al shabaab peaked on a slightly downward curve. >> al shabaab peaked in a way in somalia which is about 150 kilometers from the town of gariss

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