Kenya starvation cult death toll climbs to 73: police sources

Kenya starvation cult death toll climbs to 73: police sources
Monday 24 April 2023 - 22:17

The death toll in a case involving a Kenyan cult that practised starvation climbed to 73 Monday, police sources told AFP as investigators unearthed more corpses from mass graves in a forest in the country’s east.

“We have 73 bodies from the forest by this evening and the exercise will continue tomorrow,” a police officer involved in the probe told AFP, with a second official also confirming the toll.

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