Kenya: 400 sect members die for fasting to see Jesus
- July 17, 2023
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Police said today that there are already more than 400 alleged members of a Christian sect in southern Kenya who have been persuaded to fast to death and
Police said today that there are already more than 400 alleged members of a Christian sect in southern Kenya who have been persuaded to fast to death and thus meet Jesus Christ after the discovery of new bodies buried in the forest.
Kenyan Coast Regional Police Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha confirmed on Monday that the death toll now stands at 403while 95 remain alive.
Besides, 613 people are listed as missing. So far, about 260 DNA samples of possible relatives have been collected to identify the victims.
The Kenyan authorities began the fourth phase last Monday exhumations from graves and mass graves discovered in the forest of Shakahol, in the coastal district of Kilifi.
Almost all the corpses of the so-called.Shakahol massacre” were exhumed in this over 320-hectare forest, while only a few died in the hospital after being rescued due to the severity of their condition.
On June 27, Johansen Oduor, the government’s chief pathologist, reported that out of 338 inspected bodies at that time, 117 were teenagers and 201 adults, and 20 were in a state of decay too advanced to determine their age.
The autopsy also showed that although all the bodies showed signs of starvationSome of them, especially minors, also showed signs of strangulation and strangulation.
In this sense, the first investigations carried out by the police show that believers were forced to continue fasting even if they wanted to leave him.
At least 37 suspects were arrested in connection with the events that rocked the country, and more than twenty remain in police custody, including an alleged sect leader, Pastor Paul McKenzie.
Minister of Internal Affairs KenyaKiture Kindiki, accused last week security forces and to a judge of negligence in announcing before a commission set up in the Senate of Kenya to investigate the facts.
According to Kindika, they failed to take appropriate action in response to earlier complaints against McKenzie, who had already been arrested in March last year on charges of death of two children under similar circumstances, although he was granted parole.
Enthusiastic and in police custody since April 14, the pastor leads the International Church of Good News.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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