Story highlights No claim of responsibility but Al-Shabaab is suspected

The location is near Ethiopia and Somalia

Mandera, Kenya (CNN) An attack on a hotel in northern Kenya on Tuesday left 12 people dead and four others wounded, a Kenyan government official said.

The target was the Boshari Hotel in the town of Mandera, on the border with Ethiopia and Somalia, and all of the people killed were non-locals.

The Boshari Hotel in Mandera was targeted in the attack.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but officials said they believe the jihadist group Al-Shabaab was responsible.

The group has been behind some of the worst violence in recent years in and around Somalia.

Non-locals killed

Similar attacks have taken place in the recent weeks.

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