Exhumed bodies from a vast rural area in coastal Kenya have shown signs of starvation and strangulation.
The Kenyan government on Tuesday began handing over 429 bodies of members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country. Cult leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of asking his followers to starve themselves to death to meet Jesus and now faces charges that include murder.One tearful family received four bodies that were loaded into a hearse from a morgue in the Indian Ocean town of Malindi, said an AFP correspondent at the scene.
Mackenzie is serving a separate one-year prison sentence after being found guilty of operating a film studio and producing films without a valid license.Some outraged Kenyans have asked how authorities didn't notice any sign of the mass deaths underway.The Kenya Human Rights Commission last week said police failed to act on reports that could have prevented the deaths in the remote Shakahola area.
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