Our East Africa correspondent, Ken Karuri reports that the attack occurred just two days after Britain had closed its consulate in Mombasa over terror threats.
Suspected Islamist militants attacked hotels, a bank and a police station in a Kenyan coastal town leaving behind a trail of death and despair.
Bodies were strewn on roads inside the town and which is situated along the long coastline that runs north from Mombasa port to Somalia.
Footage from the scene shows soldiers inspecting burnt out vehicles, and people clamoring around buildings being used as makeshift morgues.
Police fear the death toll could rise even further.
The assault was the latest in a string of gun and bomb attacks that have hurt Kenya's vital tourist business and which have been blamed on Somalia's Al Shabaab militants. There was however no immediate claim of responsibility by any group
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