Nairobi: The Cairo-based top Sunni Muslim body Al-Azhar on Saturday condemned the massacre of nearly 150 people at Kenya`s Garissa University by Somalia`s Shebab Islamists.
Four militants from the Al-Qaeda-linked group killed 148 people, 142 of them students, and wounded at least 79 at Garissa university after a day-long siege on Thursday.
The militants, who were all killed, spared Muslim students but taunted Christian and Jewish students before killing them, survivors said.
"Al-Azhar condemns the terrorist act committed by Somalia`s Shebab terrorist group in the Kenyan university of Garissa that left about 150 victims, and wounded tens of innocent students," the prestigious seat of Sunni Islamic learning said in a statement on its Facebook page.
The attack, Kenya`s deadliest since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, sparked international outrage, with Pope Francis condemning the massacre as an act of "senseless brutality".
