Jihadists made Kenyans phone parents before shooting them

Some were killed with knives. Some were coaxed out of hiding with the promise that they would be spared — before being shot dead.
Some were forced to phone their parents and told to deliver a political message. Some begged for their lives and cried out for Jesus to save them. They were killed immediately.
Tales of brutal death and miraculous survival emerged from the bloodbath of Garissa University yesterday as Kenya tried to come to terms with the murder of at least 148 students by al-Shabaab extremists, the country’s worst terrorist assault since the 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi.