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16 more bodies of Shakahola massacre victims identified

Detectives exhume bodies from Shakahola forest in Kilifi county. [File, Standard]

Sixteen more bodies of Shakahola massacre victims have been identified through DNA tests, Government Chief Pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor has said.

This brings the number of bodies that have been positively identified to 50. At least 452 bodies were retrieved from shallow mass graves inside the Shakahola Forest in Malindi, Kilifi county.

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