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Teaching has resumed at the Kenyan university where 148 students died in a gun attack last April but only a few students have turned up for its reopening.

Security has been tightened at Garissa University College nine months after the attack by militant Islamist group al-Shabab.

But it appears that many students have stayed away.

Last year's attack was the deadliest so far by the Somali-based group in Kenya.

Staff reported to work last week to get the campus in north-east Kenya ready.

It has been closed since the attack and at the time some 650 students were offered places at a sister campus in Eldoret, western Kenya, to continue their studies.

They were not expected to return to Garissa but the authorities are hoping to attract a new cohort of students.

Only about a dozen students arrived and attended a business management class, including Shamsi Abdi Barre.

She told the BBC that though she is happy the university has