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The autopsy and identification of more than a hundred bodies found in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where the followers of a sect gathered, began on Monday morning, announced the interior Minister Kithure Kindiki.
“The process of autopsying the bodies begins immediately,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters outside the morgue of the district hospital in the coastal town of Malindi, calling the operations “a crucial step.”
“This process should take about a week, if all goes well,” he said.
A total of 109 people, including a majority of children, died in the forest of Shakahola where the followers of a sect called the International Church of Good News met, according to a still provisional assessment.
Autopsies should determine the causes of death. Investigators suspect that many followers died of starvation after following the precepts of the sect’s self-proclaimed pastor, Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, who advocated fasting to death “to meet Jesus”.
