21 our bodies present in investigation of cult whose followers starved themselves to dying to 'meet Jesus'

• A church chief in Kenya is accused of encouraging followers to starve themselves to “meet Jesus.”
• Twenty-one our bodies, together with youngsters, have been exhumed within the Shakahola forest.
• Chief Paul Mackenzie Nthenge was arrested amid investigations into the deaths of followers.

Kenyan authorities have exhumed 21 our bodies as a part of an investigation right into a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to dying.

At the very least three useless youngsters have been amongst these present in graves in Shakahola forest within the coastal city of Malindi, Agence France-Presse reported.

A police supply informed AFP that 21 our bodies have been discovered as of Friday, and stated extra have been anticipated to be discovered.

“We’ve not even scratched the floor which provides a transparent indication that we’re prone to get extra our bodies by the tip of this train,” the supply stated.

The group’s chief Paul Mackenzie Nthenge was arrested on April 15 amid investigations into the dying of 4 followers who died of hunger.

The pastor, who’s the chief of the Good Information Worldwide Church, is believed to have informed followers to starve themselves so as to die and “meet Jesus,” AFP reported.

State broadcaster KBC has described Nthenge as a “cult chief.”

He claims that he closed the church in 2019 and that the allegations in opposition to him are false, per The Normal.

A day earlier than Nthenge’s arrest, police raided the Shakahola forest to rescue 15 members of the church who have been within the technique of ravenous themselves, the Kenyan paper The Normal reported.

4 died earlier than reaching the hospital, and the remaining emaciated survivors have been taken to hospital in crucial situation.

”The ignorant residents are ravenous to dying in pretext to fulfill Jesus after being brainwashed by a suspect, one Paul Makenzie Nthenge, a pastor of Good Information Worldwide Church’,” the police report stated, based on The Normal.

Fifty-eight graves have up to now been discovered within the forest, the BBC reported, with one grave containing the our bodies of three youngsters and oldsters from the identical household.

Pathologists will conduct exams on the exhumed our bodies to find out in the event that they died of hunger, The Normal reported.