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Emaciated survivors, shallow graves, grieving families: Kenya's starvation cult aftermath

Members of the Kenya Red Cross attend to an emaciated member of a Christian cult named "Good News International Church", whose members believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death, in the Shakahola forest of Kilifi county, Kenya, April 23, 2023.

Forensic experts and homicide detectives carry the bodies of suspected members the cult after their remains were exhumed from their graves in Shakahola forest, April 22. Eighty-nine followers are known to have died.
Naomi Kahindi, who lost her sister and her children, mourns at the Malindi sub district hospital mortuary, April 26.
A relative of followers of the cult sits outside the Malindi sub district hospital mortuary, April 26. At the morgue at Malindi hospital, dozens of people were seeking news of relatives they feared were among the dead.
Kenyan police officers and civilians rescue an emaciated member of the cult in the Shakahola forest, April 24.
Shamim Kadzo Vidzo 26, a survivor of the "Good News International Church", sits inside a ward at the Malindi sub district hospital, April 26.
A worker receives the exhumed bodies of cult followers at the Malindi sub district hospital mortuary, April 26.
A survivor eats a meal inside a ward at the Malindi sub district hospital, April 26.
Body bags are seen arranged in Shakahola forest, April 22. Cult leader Paul Mackenzie has been in police custody since April 14, held alongside 14 other cult members. Kenyan media have reported that he is refusing food and water.