Kenyan occult deaths: kids starved, asphyxiated
THE bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a doomsday cult. On Monday investigators said they had completed 10 autopsies, comprising nine children aged between 18 months and 10 years, and one female adult, from the 101 bodies discovered last month in shallow graves in Shakahola Forest, Kilifi County. Authorities say the dead were followers of the Good News International Church, led by pastor Paul Mackenzie, whom they accuse of instructing worshippers to starve…