Kenya cult probe exhumes 21 bodies: police sources

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 24, 2023 12:03 am

Nairobi, Kenya: Twenty-one bodies have been exhumed in Kenya while investigating a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to death, police sources said Saturday (Sunday in Manila), warning the toll could rise.

Officials had earlier reported seven deaths in eastern Kenya in connection with the arrest of Makenzie Nthenge, a pastor who reportedly told followers to starve themselves in order to 'meet Jesus'.

This file photo shows passengers walking out of Nairobi Terminus of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 9, 2021. Twenty-one bodies have been exhumed in Kenya while investigating a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to death, police sources said Saturday, April 22, 2023, warning the toll could rise. XINHUA PHOTO

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