The alleged leader of the cult, Paul Mackenzie, was arrested following a tip-off that also suggested the existence of shallow graves belonging to his followers.
More than 20 bodies have been exhumed as part of an investigation into a starvation cult in Kenya, according to reports.
Police began exhuming remains on Friday from more than a dozen suspected graves in the east of the country thought to contain the remains of followers of a fringe Christian sect who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. On Thursday, homicide detectives marked out patches of earth with sticks and yellow tape in Shakahola forest in Kilifi county, near the location where police rescued 15 members of the Good News International Church last week, according to footage broadcast by Citizen TV.
Police began exhuming bodies on Friday, said Charles Kamau, a detective in the nearby town of Malindi. The alleged leader of the church, Paul Mackenzie, was arrested following a tip-off that also suggested the existence of shallow graves belonging to at least 31 of his followers.Police said the 15 rescued worshippers had been told to starve themselves to death so they could meet their creator.
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