'Deadly prayers': Kilifi couple arrested after their two children die in suspected cult

Signage of the Kilimo Primary School in Kilifi County, where the two children who died after their parents reportedly refused to take them to hospital, were learners. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

Police in Kilifi have arrested a man and his wife after they were accused of causing the death of their two children by failing to take them to hospital after they fell sick.

The couple is said to have refused to take the two children, a girl aged 11 and a boy aged 13, for medical attention claiming their religion does not allow it and that the children would be healed by faith.