So-called members of a Christian sect who fasted until they died in the forest Shakahola for (Southern Kenya) meet Jesus Christ Kenya’s Home Minister said on Thursday it had risen to 241 after authorities found more bodies. Kithure Kindiki.
Five of those bodies are skeletons found after moving on this week. burialsuspended last Thursday.
“Skeletons are part of human remains that will become objects. autopsy examinationsthe minister told reporters in Shakahola.
Kindiki also revealed that a person who was rescued from the forest and taken to the hospital died last night. The victim will completely refuse to eat.
“We have done everything we can to feed the victim of this terrible crime with great resistance.but he was already significantly weakened and his resistance to eating defeated him,” explained the Minister of the Interior.
To date, he has stated 91 people (including one who died in hospital) were rescued alive and 19 victims were reunited with their families.
Likewise, rescuers collected 93 DNA samples and security forces 34 people were arrested in connection with the so-called “Shakahola massacre”.
Kindiki also explained that more tombs have been identified but will be excavated after the excavation is complete. Autopsy of 129 bodies
“As soon as the ‘opsi’ investigations are finished, we will continue the exhumation of more bodies. We will not leave any of our people, dead or alive, in that forest.‘ added the minister.
Almost all dead “Shakahola Massacre” They were exhumed from the graves and mass graves in that forest, except for a few people who died in the hospital because their condition was serious.
autopsies more than a hundred corpses They showed that the bodies of at least three young children and one adult also showed signs of suffocation and suffocation, although they all showed signs of starvation.
First police investigations, loyalists keep fasting even if they want to leave.
On the 10th, the Shanzu court in the coastal city of Mombasa ordered a 30-day extension (the count begins on May 3). arrest of cult leader The priest, who allegedly persuaded the victims to fast, Paul Mackenzie Nthengealong with his wife and 16 other suspects.
On May 2, Nthenge and other detainees were released by the court in the tourist coastal town. it was badAfter the prosecution announced its intention to formulate terrorism charges against them, this is something the court itself declared incompetent.
However, the priest and his followers were arrested minutes later and taken to the Shanzu court. 120 kilometerswhere the Police failed to request authorization to detain them for another 90 days.
Kenyan President, William Ruto On May 14, he apologized on behalf of his government for failing to prevent the deaths.
Nthenge, who has been in police custody since April 14, Good News International Church (International Church of Good News).
The pastor, an ecstatic worker, was arrested last March after being accused of murdering two children in similar circumstances, but bail