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Detectives at the scene where 237 bodies were exhumed at Shakahola Forest in Kilifi County. [Interior, Standard]
The Senate has recommended additional personnel to the search and rescue mission for survivors of the fasting-to-death cult at Shakahola Forest in Kilifi County.
The committee led by Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana at the weekend visited the scene where 237 bodies of people believed to have starved to death to meet their creator were exhumed and came face to face with the tragedy.
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