Masked attackers killed at least 17 people yesterday in attacks on churches in a Kenyan border town used as a base for operations against al Qaeda-linked insurgents in Somalia.

At least 45 people were wounded in the simultaneous attacks in Garissa, in the north of the East African country, which has suffered a series of attacks since sending troops into Somalia last October to crush its northern neighbour's al Shabaab militants.

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