Autopsies show children starved, suffocated in Kenyan cult deaths
Kenya’s Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor speaks on May 1, 2023 before the start of post-mortem on victims of the Shakahola massacre linked to pastor Paul Mackenzie. PHOTO | SIMON MAINA | AFP
The bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said on Monday, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a doomsday cult.