Kenya doomsday cult demise toll climbs to 201: Official

By Reuters: Searchers for survivors and victims of a doomsday cult in Kenya’s Shakahola forest discovered 22 additional our our bodies on Saturday, based mostly on a regional governmental official.

The discoveries ship the demise toll of one in every of many nation’s worst tragedies to 201.

“Our forensic team was able to exhume 22 bodies today but we have not reported any rescue,” Rhodah Onyancha, a regional commissioner, knowledgeable journalists inside the Shakahola forest inside the nation’s southwest the place the search is steady.

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She talked about one other suspect had moreover been arrested, bringing the general number of these detained over the deaths to 26.

Throughout this week authorities have been digging up shallow graves scattered by way of the forest looking out for stays and scouring the world for any survivors as a complete lot of people are nonetheless reported missing.

On Friday, 29 our our bodies have been unearthed, along with these of 12 kids which have been current in a single grave.

On Wednesday, a Kenyan court docket docket denied bail to Paul Mackenzie, chief of the Good News International Church, who has been accused of ordering his followers to starve their kids and themselves to demise so they could go to heaven sooner than the highest of the world.

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