Religious fanatics near brush with death in the name of God

Kenya: Sergeant Duncan Newton Karinga, said they have not experienced any serious accident like Gurd Judmaier’s case, but cited the December 1979 incident of the Meru zealot Ephraim M’Ikiara, who had gone up the mountain to pray.

“We were going up to rescue the Zealot after reports that a man who was not properly dressed – he wore a pair of shorts and a great-coat, was lying on his back on Nelion reading the Bible and singing songs of praise to God. He saw me and started taking another direction to get away from us. He disappeared in the fog and a pilot in the air lost sight of him. He was literary climbing the rocks like a hyrax. We lost him. It was late afternoon.”