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Immaculate Akello

Suspect in Kenya cult deaths dies in custody after hunger strike

A follower of a cult that has killed hundreds, bends as she sits next to Kenya Red Cross officials inside a car after being rescued by police in a forest in Shakahola, outskirts of Malindi town, Kenyan Coast Tuesday, April 25, 2023 [AP Photo]

Nairobi, Kenya – One of the 30 suspects being held together with the Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie over the deaths of more than 300 people who were told to starve themselves to death if they wanted to go to heaven, has died in custody.

The deceased had been in police custody for more than 60 days while the Kenyan criminal investigations investigators continued with the probe and exhumation of bodies around Shakahola forest on the outskirts of Malindi in coastal Kenya, where police first discovered bodies in April.

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