The authorities say that more bodies are expected to be discovered as research efforts in Southeast Kenya continue.
At least five bodies of shallow graves have been recovered at a location in Kenya, where victims of religious worship were suspected, according to the authorities.
The excavations were continuing on Friday on the site on the outskirts of Malindy in Kilifi Province in southeast of Kenya, close to where hundreds of members of the Day of Resurrection were found two years ago.
On Thursday, government pathology specialist, Dr. Richard Njoroj, said that the authorities expect to find more remains on the site.
“At the beginning of this exercise, we had 27 suspected hat. Today we were able to overcome six,” said Ngruj.
“Among the six graves, we found five bodies. Then, around that area, we found 10 different parts of the scattered body, spreading in different places on the surface,” added pathologist added.
Njoroj emphasized that they expect more graves to be found because the teams have not exhausted research in a vast area.
“So we expect more bodies,” the official said.
“Hunger and suffocation”
In July, the Kenya office told the Director of the Public Prosecution that he believed that the victims buried on the site may “starve and suffocate as a result of adopting and strengthening extremist religious ideologies.”
Prosecutors said that at least 11 suspects are being investigated regarding deaths.
People who live around the bodies extract site were unable to calculate the location of many children, which led to doubt about wrong play and investigations, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
More than 400 bodies were extracted from the nearby Shakahola forest in 2023 in one of the largest incidents of worship in the world in modern history.
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