Freshly buried body bearing signs of torture discovered in Shakahola

Interior CS Kithure Kindiki getting briefed by a forensic investigator about progress at Shakahola as Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha and DCI officers look on, August 2023. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

Detectives and forensic experts investigating the Shakahola doomsday cult in Kilifi County Tuesday exhumed a body from a grave in the 50,000-acre Chakama ranch.

The body was buried in one of the dam trenches in the Kwa Mugambi area, pushing the death toll to 428.