Autopsy on bodies of Kwa Binzaro sect victims kicks off

A team carrying bodies of suspected cult exhumed at Kwa Binzaro village in Malindi, Kilifi County. The death toll has hit 37 after five bodies were exhumed on Friday.[Marion Kithi/Standard]

Pathologists have begun to carry out autopsies on 34 bodies linked to a religious cult whose leader allegedly instructed them to starve themselves to death.

Chief government pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor said skeletal x-rays, particularly on long bones and the skull, helps pathologists to determine if there were traumatic injuries on the victims at the time of death.