State releases identified bodies of Shakahola cult victims to families

Homicide detectives collect some of the bodies that were retrieved from shallow graves within Shakahola forest in Kilifi County. [File, Standard]

State agencies yesterday started to contact the families whose loved ones died in the Shakahola cult to collect bodies from Malindi Sub County Hospital mortuary for burial.

However, some of the families contacted said they were yet to decide whether to collect the bodies or leave them for the planned state mass burial.