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Deadly fast: How Shakahola victims signed suicide agreement with Makenzi

Exhumed bodies at the Shakahola fasting cult crime scene. [File, Standard]

The investigating officer in the  Shakahola massacre told the court that controversial preacher Paul Makenzi and 192 others had a suicide pact by agreeing to fast to death.

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