Cult death toll in Kenya rises to 201

Pastor McKenzie Good News International Church’s number of self-starved followers has risen to 201. informs local channel Citizen TV.

The bodies of the victims were buried, and therefore the search team involved in the investigation of the activities of the cult had to exhume them.

“Our team managed to exhume 22 bodies, but we have not received information about any rescued”– said the commissioner of the coastal region, Roda Onyancha.

She also added that police have arrested another suspect. Now 26 people are involved in the case.

Hundreds more are reported missing in the region. Their search continues.

Previously, 609 members of the sect were reported missing.

The search for victims and the exhumation of the bodies of those who died due to a cult that promotes hunger to “meet Jesus” began in April. On May 1, experts began opening the bodies.

Sect pastor Mackenzie Ntenge was arrested after experts found four bodies. People, according to the assumptions of the investigation, died from his “sermons”.

Experts received data on the causes of death of 112 people – it turned out that most of them died of starvation. At the same time, there were victims, mostly children, who were strangled.