This month's bloody attack at Garissa was Kenya's worst since the 1998 US Embassy bombing. Al-Shabaab - the Islamist armed group based in Somalia - claims credit for the attack, which killed at least 147 people at Garissa including 142 students, and injured one hundred more.
Since Kenyan troops deployed in Somalia against Al-Shabaab in 2011, the group has claimed responsibility for several major attacks in Kenya, including the devastating 2013 assault on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall.
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