Survivor Found Two Days After Kenya Massacre

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A survivor of the Kenya university massacre which saw 148 people killed has been found two days after the attack.

Kenyan medical staff are reported to have found Cynthia Cheroitich during the grim task of dealing with the bodies of those killed by members of Somalia-based terror group al Shabaab.

The 19-year-old said from her hospital bed that she hid in a large cupboard, covering herself with clothes, refusing to emerge when some of her classmates came out of hiding at the demands of the gunmen from the al Shabaab group.

She said she drank lotion to stave off thirst and hunger.

She said she didn't believe that rescuers urging her to come out of her hiding place were there to help, suspecting at first that they were militants.

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Gallery: Graphic Images From Kenya Massacre

This man was captured at the scene by Kenyan authorities

Mohamed Mohamud has been named as the mastermind behind the attack

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It was only when Kenyan security forces had one of her teachers appeal to her that she did she come out, she said.

Cheroitich, a Christian, said: "I was just praying to my God."

Meanwhile, more details have emerged of those arrested or sought over the attack.

Police named militant Islamist Mohamed Mohamud, a quietly-spoken former teacher, as the alleged mastermind of the massacre in Garissa.

The alleged al Shabaab member, a Kenyan of Somali origin, is also wanted in connection with a string of recent cross-border killings and massacres in Kenya's northeastern border region.

While Mohamud, thought to be in his late-50s, did not take part physically in the Garissa attack, survivors described the attackers as men like him: speaking Kenya's Swahili language well, with some suggesting they may have been Kenyan too.

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Gallery: A Look At The History Of Somali Terrorist Group Al Shabaab

Al Shabaab ("the Youth") emerged from a group called the Union of Islamic Courts which controlled Mogadishu before being forced out by Ethiopian troops in 2006

The group has been banned by both the US and UK but has 7000-9000 fighters, many of them foreign, and it is thought to have close ties with al Qaeda

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Kenyan police have arrested five men in connection with the university massacre and four gunmen were killed on Thursday at the end of the day-long siege.

The name of the three suspected organisers were not given, but the two arrested on campus included university security guard Osman Ali Dagane and Tanzanian Rashid Charles Mberesero found hiding in the university's ceiling with hand grenades.

The attack at the university, which is near the border with Somalia, left 148 dead, including 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers, and was Kenya's deadliest attack since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi.

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