A court ordered the exhumation of people believed to have been strangled and strangled, in the same county where hundreds of members of a sect were found dead two years ago, prosecutors said.
The corpses, in this new case, are believed to have been buried in shallow graves on the outskirts of Malidi, in Kilii County, Southeast Kenya. So far, investigations are turning to 11 suspects, the office of the Director of the Prosecutor’s Office said in a post on the X platform.
Authorities suspect that many people “through starvation and suffocation,” he added. Victims may have been embraced and promoted “extreme religious beliefs”.
More than 400 corpses were found in 2023 in the neighboring Sakahola Forest, in one of the worst cases of mass murder or suicide associated with a heresy. Authorities say the heresy leader, Paul Mackenzie, ordered the faithful to fast themselves and their children to death to “go to paradise before the end of the world comes.”
Mackenzie has been prosecuted for murders and terrorism, but he denies the accusations.
The prosecutor’s office said that some people in the area where the new tombs were found were not able to determine where many ignorant children were and this led to suspicions of criminal activity.
The court, as well as toxicological and genetic examinations.
In April, Kenyan police found two dead and rescued 57 people who showed weak and patients from a church in the western part of the country.
Source: RES – EIA
