Kenyan president declares 3 days of national mourning

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Nairobi - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta declared three days of national mourning on Saturday after Somali al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab gunmen killed almost 150 people in one of the country's worst massacres.

"I declare three days of mourning during which our flags will fly at half mast," Kenyatta said in a televised national address from the capital Nairobi, condemning the "barbaric slaughter" in his first address since the attack ended on Thursday.