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EXPLAINED: Kenya probes starvation cult graves | Vintage Vibes

An image from a Citizen TV video shows suspected cult leader Paul Mackenzie in police custody after officers rescued 15 members of his Good News International Church in eastern Kenya last week.

NAIROBI: Kenyan police have begun marking out the locations of more than a dozen suspected graves thought to contain the remains of followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death, two witnesses said.

On Thursday, homicide detectives marked out patches of bare earth with sticks and yellow tape in the Shakahola forest in Kilifi county, near the location where police rescued 15 members of the Good News International Church last week, according to Citizen TV.

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