Shakahola massacre: Death toll rises to 241 after one rescuee dies

Interior CS Kithure Kindiki when he visited Shakahola forest, Kilifi County on April 25, 2023. [ Twitter, Interior]

The death toll in the Shakahola Forest massacre has hit two hundred and forty-one (241), Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has said.

Addressing the press on Thursday, May 25, Kindiki explained that the rescue team had stumbled on five more human skeletons on two different days after the exhumation exercise had been halted by the government last week.