THE bodies of dozens of students and staff killed by Islamist extremists at Garissa University were moved to the Kenyan capital Nairobi for identification yesterday.

At least 147 people died when al-Shabab militants stormed the college in north-eastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia.

The mortuaries in Garissa had been unable to cope and many of the students killed came from other parts of the country.

Four of the gunmen involved were killed by security forces and a fifth was arrested.

Hundreds of survivors were also being sent home and a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed across north-eastern Kenya.

The masked attackers — laden with explosives and armed with AK-47s — had isolated non-Muslim students and gunned them down, survivors said.

Most of the 147 dead were students, but two security guards, one policeman and one soldier were also killed in the attack and at least 79 people were wounded.