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Starvation Cult Deaths in Kenya Rise to 90 as Authorities Uncover More Graves

  • Kenyan police have uncovered dozens of bodies from mass graves connected to a Christian pastor who told his congregants to starve themselves to death.
  • The death toll has risen to 90, with many victims believed to have been children who were required to starve first by the cult leader.
  • The cult leader, Paul Mackenzie, is in police custody and believed to have instructed followers to quit jobs and schools and not seek medical care in order to "meet Jesus."
  • The incident has led to calls for tighter regulation of religious institutions in Kenya and questions about security and intelligence failures that allowed the cult to operate.
  • Autopsies have been paused due to full morgues, with fears that more corpses could still be found on the 800-acre ranch owned by Mackenzie.
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