article_snippet.sent: Garissa, Kenya (CNN)The desks of a Madrassa in the Kenyan town Madrassa are empty.
article_snippet.sent: a Madrassa in the Kenyan town 573 students, all male, are staying home after Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced three days of national mourning following last week's deadly attack at a nearby university.
article_snippet.sent: Only a few kilometers away, 147 people -- mostly students -- were brutally massacred when Al-Shabaab militants invaded the campus in Garissa, a town in northeastern Kenya.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, an attack by Al-Shabaab on a shopping center in the country's capital, Nairobi, claimed the lives of 68 people.
highlights_snippet.sent: The attack at a Garissa university last week killed 147 people, mostly students .
  