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'Morgue is full': How Kenyan starvation cult kept killing

Mortuary personnel pull a cart with the remains of a victim of a Kenyan starvation cult at the Malindi Sub-County Hospital Mortuary in Malindi on March 26, 2024. [AFP]

The discovery of body parts and skeletons strewn around an isolated village in coastal Kenya has stoked fears that a doomsday starvation cult, which claimed hundreds of live,s has survived despite a major police operation.

Two years ago, an investigation into what became known as the "Shakahola Forest Massacre" revealed one of the world's worst death cults had been operating just inland from Kenya's beautiful beaches.

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