Police arrest five suspects in Kenya uni attack after death toll rises to 148

Kenyan police have arrested at least five suspects in connection with the attack earlier this week at Garissa University College which claimed 148 lives.

Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery told NTV Kenya the arrests had been made after he declared operations to recover bodies over.

The final toll from Thursday's carnage in the college in the northeastern town of Garissa included 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.

Four gunmen from Somalia's Shebab Islamists were also killed.

"We have called off the operation after combing the whole university, all the bodies have been removed from the scene and brought to Nairobi," Nkaissery told reporters, after arriving back in the capital from Garissa.

"This is a very sad moment for us as a country, and I urge calm and total cooperation with the security personnel to make Kenya safe," he added.