Meanwhile, forensic police officers continued to scour the site where one student shocked security forces by emerging unharmed from a wardrobe where she had hidden for over two days.

A Kenya Red Cross spokeswoman said that the 19-year old was traumatized and dehydrated but physically unharmed and undergoing assessment.

Thursday'€™s attack on Garissa University, near the Somali border, claimed 148 lives, including 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers. Interior ministry spokesman, Mwenda Njoka, said five arrests had been made.

'€œThree were the coordinators who were arrested while trying to flee to Somalia, two were arrested within the precincts of Garissa University,'€ he told AFP, noting that the four gunmen were killed on Thursday.

The names of the suspected organizers were not given, but Njoka said the two arrested on campus included a security guard and a Tanzanian named as Rashid Charles Mberesero.

Mberesero was reportedly arrested on the campus on Friday, found hiding as people carried out the grim work of clearing piles of bodies.

'€œHe was hiding in the ceiling of the university and had grenades,'€ Njoka said, while the guard, a Kenyan of ethnic Somali origin, was named as Osman Ali Dagane.

A US $215,000 bounty has also been offered for alleged Shebab commander Mohamed Mohamud, a former Kenyan teacher believed to now be in Somalia and said to be the mastermind behind the Garissa attack.

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