Families await bodies of murdered Kenyan students

NAIROBI: Quietly weeping, families desperate for news of sons and daughters feared killed at the Kenya university massacre by Islamist gunmen wait for hours at a morgue in the capital Nairobi.
Cargo planes carrying corpses flew on Friday afternoon from the northeastern town of Garissa to Nairobi after the day-long killing spree on Thursday by Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents.
“I cannot talk,” were the last whispered words from Salome, a 20-year-old economics student, to her father Peter Wainaina, about an hour into the attack. Then she hung up.
Wainaina, 72, called her after receiving a terrible text message: “Al-Shebab is killing us. Goodbye. If we don’t make it, I loved you all.
“After that I tried later but her phone was off,” he said sadly. “Since then I have no news — I called the registrar of the university, but he could not give any information.”
He waits beside around a hundred others, sitting in tents erected on the morgue car park, waiting in sombre, dignified silence, some quietly weeping.