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GARISSA, Kenya (CNN) -
Freshly laundered clothes still hang Friday in the dormitory at Garissa University College. Stuffed animals remain in one room. On the wall in another hangs a poster on proper preparation for Muslim prayer.
These small reminders of college life at this Kenyan school belie the horror of what happened here: the slaughter of at least 147 people, many of them students who lived in this building.
On Friday afternoon, more than 36 hours after the attack, investigators and Kenya Red Cross crews were finishing up the task of removing the bodies of dead students.
The corpses of four Al-Shabaab attackers -- dressed head to toe in black and still clutching their AK-47s -- remained where they fell, their bodies shattered in a torrent of bullets.
Investigators marked the locations of students' bodies with numbered tags before Red Cross workers came in to send them off to morgues.
They would call out to each other with the locations of the dead, reducing once promising lives, for the time being at least, to numbers.
GARISSA, Kenya (CNN) -
Freshly laundered clothes still hang Friday in the dormitory at Garissa University College. Stuffed animals remain in one room. On the wall in another hangs a poster on proper preparation for Muslim prayer.
These small reminders of college life at this Kenyan school belie the horror of what happened here: the slaughter of at least 147 people, many of them students who lived in this building.
On Friday afternoon, more than 36 hours after the attack, investigators and Kenya Red Cross crews were finishing up the task of removing the bodies of dead students.
The corpses of four Al-Shabaab attackers -- dressed head to toe in black and still clutching their AK-47s -- remained where they fell, their bodies shattered in a torrent of bullets.
Investigators marked the locations of students' bodies with numbered tags before Red Cross workers came in to send them off to morgues.
They would call out to each other with the locations of the dead, reducing once promising lives, for the time being at least, to numbers.