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Kenyan father searches for wife and six children among dead cult members

Steven Mwiti holds a photograph of his late wife Joan Bahati, a follower of a Christian cult named "Good News International Church," outside the Malindi sub district hospital mortuary in Malindi, Kilifi county, Kenya, April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Stephen Mwiti was too distraught to go identify the bodies of his wife and six children among the corpses of dozens of cult members recovered from Shakahola forest and brought to a mortuary in Kenya's coastal town of Malindi on Wednesday.

"My children are gone. The children who have been rescued, I went and had a look and I did not see my children," Mwiti said as he waved a photo of his wife and four of the children.

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