Three months after the discovery of the first deaths around the Kenyan sect, bodies are still being found. With the discovery of twelve new bodies, the total number of dead is now at 403.
Authorities announced on Monday that they had exhumed a further 12 bodies. The bodies were found in a forest near the coastal town of Malindi.
More deaths are feared. “We keep coming across new graves. Sometimes we even find graves in the places where we set up our tents,” a detective tells The Standard. Many people were also reported missing in the Malindi area.
Good News International Church leader Paul Nthenge Mckenzie has been in jail since mid-April. The former taxi driver is said to have called on his supporters to starve themselves and their children to “meet Jesus”.
Some of the victims also seem to have died of starvation. But others, mostly children, have been strangled, beaten or suffocated.
2023-07-17 16:28:00
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