The Kenyan authorities raised 227 number of exhumed corpses on the basis of a Christian sect that operated in the south of the country and called on its followers to fast to death in order to “Know Jesus Christ”.

According to the Kenyan television channel NTV, in recent hours, the authorities discovered 15 more bodies in mass graves on these lands located in Shakahol, bringing the total number of bodies found to 227.

In a similar vein, Primorye Police Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha explained that a person on the list of missing persons has been brought before the authorities, who are being placed in 611 total number of people who may have had ties to the sectwhose whereabouts are unknown.

Kenyan President William Ruto recently took office. “full responsibility” in what happened and promised that the authorities would “get to the bottom of the matter” to clarify what had happened. “I take responsibility that, as president, this should not have happened,” he stressed.

The main leaders of the sect, led by Paul Mackenzie, called for followerspractice starvation to death under the promise that they will meet Jesus Christ in a new life. Ruto himself called Mackenzie “a terrible criminal”.

Almost all who died from the call “Massacre at Shakahol”what is the name of the forest in which the tragedy occurred, were exhumed from the graves and mass graves found in this forest, with the exception of a few who died in the hospital due to a serious condition.

An autopsy of more than a hundred bodies showed that, although they all showed signs of starvation, the corpses at least three minors the adult also had signs of suffocation and suffocation.

Similarly, early police investigations show that believers they were forced to keep fasting even if they wanted to leave him.

Last Wednesday, a Shanzu court in the coastal city of Mombasa ordered a thirty-day extension (starting May 3) of the detention of a sect leader who allegedly persuaded victims to fast. Pastor Paul Mackenzie Ntenge, along with his wife and 16 other suspects.

May 2, Ntenge and other detainees were released. court in the tourist coastal city of Malindi after prosecutors expressed their intention to bring charges of terrorism against them, in which case the court found itself incompetent.