The Reuters website reports that masked assailants launched simultaneous gun and grenade raids on two churches in a town in Kenya today (July 1, 2012), killing at least 17 people.
More than 60 people were wounded in the attacks in Garissa, the north Kenya town which has been used as a base for operations against al Qaeda-linked insurgents in Somalia.
"This is the worst single attack since October, when our troops went into Somalia," national police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks in Garissa, a largely Muslim town of 150,000 with a significant ethnic Somali population.
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