Last Updated: April 24, 2023, 02:36 IST
Police and native residents load the exhumed our bodies of victims of a non secular cult into the again of a truck in the village of Shakahola, close to the coastal metropolis of Malindi, in southeastern Kenya Sunday, April 23, 2023. (AP Photo)
Police close to the coastal city of Malindi began exhuming our bodies on Friday from the Shakahola forest
Kenyan police have now exhumed the our bodies of 47 individuals thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they’d go to heaven in the event that they starved themselves to dying.
Police close to the coastal city of Malindi began exhuming our bodies on Friday from the Shakahola forest.
“In total, 47 people have died at the Shakahola forest,” detective Charles Kamau advised Reuters on Sunday.
The exhumations had been nonetheless ongoing, Kamau mentioned.
(*47*)Earlier this month, police rescued 15 members of the group — worshippers on the Good News International Church — who they mentioned had been advised to starve themselves to dying. Four of them died earlier than they reached hospital, police mentioned.
The chief of the church, Paul Mackenzie, was arrested following a tip-off that prompt the existence of shallow graves belonging to a minimum of 31 of Mackenzie’s followers.
Local media, citing police sources, reported that Mackenzie has refused to eat or drink whereas in police custody.
Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki mentioned your complete 800 acre forest had been sealed off and declared a scene of crime.
“This horrendous blight on our conscience must lead not only to the most severe punishment of the perpetrator(s) of the atrocity on so many innocent souls, but tighter regulation (including self-regulation) of every church, mosque, temple or synagogue going forward,” he mentioned.
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