Story highlights Commando says air transport was delayed for hours as Al-Shabaab forces slaughtered students

On April 2, 147 were killed at a university in Garissa, Kenya, most were students

Nairobi (CNN) An elite police commando unit waited hours for transport from Nairobi, Kenya, to Garissa, where Al-Shabaab terrorists had taken over a university on April 2, according to one of the commandos who participated in the response operation.

The commando asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals and because he was not authorized to speak.

Al-Shabaab slaughtered 147 people at the school. Of the fatalities, 142 were students at the university, and the rest were security forces and campus security.

At 7:00 a.m. local time, the response team was told to assemble for a mission to Garissa, the police commando told CNN. At 8:00 a.m., he said, the team was told there were no police aircraft available to take them.

A reserve team was then sent by road, while the main commando team waited in Nairobi for air transport, he said.

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