Kwa Binzaro : Children bore the brunt of the cult

Exhumation exercise at the kwa Binzaro village in kilifi county suspended to give room for postmortem. [File, Standard]

Two hours' drive from the tourist town of Malindi, forensic teams turn off the tarred road into a thicket of thorn bushes, entering the Kwa Binzaro crime scene that came to light in mid-July.

Dozens of women and children have died after a suspected doomsday cult ordered them to fast to die and go to heaven. Like the Shakahola cult, children were to die first, followed by women.