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<\/figure>\n\n\nCult leader Paul Mackenzie is currently facing charges, including murder, after it was alleged that he told his members to starve themselves to death in order to see Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DNA testing is being used by the authorities to identify deceased people and their families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first bodies were given to family members on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the mortuary in Malindi, families were gathering loved ones for reburial, and emotions were running high as few cried out and frightene<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pointing to a hearse carriying four bodies,Francis Wanje, a parent who lost his daughter and seven other family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe lost eight members of our family,” Wanje said. “We were supposed to get five, but were told that one of the children did not match the DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo now we have been given only four (bodies). So we are still hoping that perhaps in the future, we are going to get the other four.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mackenzie and his associates were charged with torture and murder of 191 children on February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trial is set to begin on April 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mackenzie after found guilty of producing films without license is serving a separate one year prison sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interior minister Kithure Kindiki declared Mackenzie’s Good News International Ministries as a criminal organized group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Tuesday, the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the centre of a nationally shocking court case were turned over to their relatives by Kenya’s authorities. Exhumed bodies from a large rural Kenyan coastal area have revealed evidence of strangling and malnutrition. Cult leader Paul Mackenzie is currently facing charges, including murder,…<\/p>\n