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Police link new bodies exhumed from Kenyan mass graves to starvation cult

Detectives carry the exhumed remains of a suspected victim of a religious cult in Kwa Binzaro, 21 August. © Dicksy O'Obiero/Reuters

As Kenyan police continue to exhume bodies from a mass grave discovered last week, authorities are linking these new discoveries to a starvation cult uncovered with the discovery of hundreds of bodies in a forest in 2023 – according to documents exclusively obtained by RFI.

Over the last 10 days, 24 bodies have been exhumed from Kwa Binzaro, a small village near Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast and not far from the Shakahola forest – where 450 bodies were found in 2023.

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