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Kenya starts to return the 429 bodies of doomsday cult victims to families
Updated On: 26 March, 2024 07:45 PM IST | Nairobi | AP
Cult leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of asking his followers to starve themselves to death to meet Jesus
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A woman mourns while assisted counsellors after receiving the remains of several family members who were victims of a Kenyan starvation cult at the Malindi Sub-County Hospital Mortuary in Malindi. Pic/AFP
The Kenyan government on Tuesday began handing over 429 bodies of members of a doomsday cult at the centre of a legal case that has shocked the country.
Exhumed bodies from a vast rural area in coastal Kenya have shown signs of starvation and strangulation. 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.
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