Autopsies show children starved, suffocated in Kenyan cult deaths

Kenya’s Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor

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

Nairobi

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.