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Body, human skulls found as police rescue four at Malindi homestead

Detectives exhume bodies during the phase five exhumation inside the Shakahola forest, Kilifi county. [Marion Kithi, Standrd]

Police in Malindi have recovered one body, two human skulls and rescued four people at a bushy homestead in Kwa Binzaro village, a few kilometres from the infamous Shakahola Forest where more than 400 people were buried after starving to death.

A security team led by Kilifi County Commissioner Mr Josphat Biwott on Saturday visited the scene of a suspected radicalised family and conducted a search, during which they rescued the four individuals.

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