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Pathologists to conduct postmoterm on Kilifi cult bodies

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The government will on Thursday start conducting a postmortem on the bodies exhumed from the Shakahola forest in Kilifi. This follows a directive by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji earlier this week. The Kilifi cult death toll…[Continue Reading...]

Good News International Church Pastor Paul Mackenzie during an interview with the ‘Nation’ in Kilifi County on March 24, 2023. The pastor is under arrest following the deaths of four followers, whom he reportedly told to starve themselves in order to “meet Jesus”. PHOTO | NMG

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A series of blunders by controversial televangelist Paul Mackenzie and his aides made his freedom short-lived after he was released by a court last month, leading to the discovery of mass graves in Kilifi’s Shakahola village. On March 23, Mackenzie…[Continue Reading...]

Kenyan father searches for wife and six children among dead cult members

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MALINDI, Kenya, April 26 (Reuters) - Stephen Mwiti was too distraught to go identify the bodies of his wife and six children among the corpses of dozens of cult members recovered from Shakahola forest and brought to a mortuary in…[Continue Reading...]

‘Weak and traumatized’ survivors found as 89 bodies recovered in Kenya starvation cult case

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Police have now recovered 89 bodies from mass graves in a forest in eastern Kenya, believed to be linked to a cult that allegedly encouraged its followers to starve themselves to gain salvation, the country’s government said. Kithure Kindiki, the…[Continue Reading...]

Tragedies That Have Left Kenyans Grieving and Talking This Week

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The mother of it all is the likely massacre that detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have been ravelling since camping in Malindi, Kilifi county. It is in a sect run in the coastal county by controversial Pastor…[Continue Reading...]

The family that starved itself to death to meet Jesus: Parents and their three children are found in one forest grave as Kenyan ‘starvation cult’ death toll reaches 58

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The bodies of three children and their parents have been recovered from a burial site in Kenya alongside more than 50 other Christian cult members who believed they would 'meet Jesus' in Heaven if they starved themselves to death. Kenyan…[Continue Reading...]

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