Kenyan court orders exhumations in suspected cult-related deaths
The bodies in the new case are believed to be buried in shallow graves on the outskirts of Malindi in southeastern Kenya's Kilifi County, and 11 suspects are being investigated, Kenya's office of the director of public prosecutions said on X.
'Investigators suspect many individuals were murdered through starvation and suffocation,' it said.
'The victims may have been starved and suffocated as a result of adopting and promoting extreme religious ideologies.'
More than 400 bodies were exhumed from the nearby Shakahola Forest in 2023 in one of the world's worst cult-related disasters in recent history.
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