Kenya cult deaths attain 103

The demise toll amongst followers of a Kenyan cult, who believed they’d go to heaven within the occasion that they starved themselves, has risen to 103, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said.

The toll has steadily risen in newest days as authorities have carried out exhumations of mass graves current in an 800-acre house of the Shakahola forest in japanese Kenya the place the self-proclaimed Good News International Church was based.

Most of the lifeless had been recovered from shallow graves, whereas a small amount had been found alive and emaciated nonetheless later died.