Death toll in Kenya starvation cult case passes 400

“Total death Toll - 403,” Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha told AFP in a message, following the latest round of exhumations in the Shakahola forest, where cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie allegedly urged followers to starve to death.

“Exhumation continues tomorrow,” Onyancha added, as investigators search for more graves in the forest, where the first victims – some dead, others alive but weakened and emaciated – were discovered on April 13.

According to government autopsies, starvation appears to have been the main cause of death, although some victims, including children, were strangled, beaten or suffocated.

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    21 year ago

    Especially given the fact that there seemed to be a group of men preventing people from escaping or eating.

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      21 year ago

      Good point. These people are caught between two oppressive authorities at this point - the police and the cult enforcers.