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Kenyan death cult pastor arrested

Kenyan death cult pastor arrested

A Kenyan televangelist was arrested after reports of the "mass killing of his followers", the interior minister said, as authorities investigated scores of other deaths linked to a religious cult from the same region. As news of pastor Ezekiel Odero's detention spread, officials said the death toll had now reached 103 in the separate cult investigation that has shocked the nation and prompted calls for a crackdown on religious fringe groups. Odero, dressed in white robes and carrying a thick black book, did not respond to reporters' questions as he was escorted into a police station by a uniformed officer.…
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Kenya hunger cult deaths reach 89, minister prays survivors will ‘tell the story’

Kenya hunger cult deaths reach 89, minister prays survivors will ‘tell the story’

GEORGE OBULUTSA THE death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said, calling for the group's leader to spend the rest of his life in prison. The toll has steadily risen in recent days as authorities have carried out exhumations of mass graves found in an 800-acre area of the Shakahola forest in eastern Kenya where the self-proclaimed Good News International Church was based. Most of the dead were recovered from shallow graves, while a small number were found alive and…
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Kenya police begin exhuming remains from suspected Christian cult graves

Kenya police begin exhuming remains from suspected Christian cult graves

HUMPHREY MALALO KENYAN police began exhuming remains from more than a dozen suspected graves in the east of the country thought to contain followers of a Christian cult 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, without…
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