A Kenyan televangelist is arrested after reports of the 'mass killing of his followers', the interior minister says, as authorities investigate scores of other deaths linked to a religious cult from the same region.
A Kenyan televangelist has been arrested after reports of the "mass killing of his followers", the interior minister said, as authorities investigated scores of other deaths linked to a religious cult from the same region.
"The said Church has been shut down. The over 100 people who were holed up at the premises have been evacuated and will be required to record statements," Mr Kindiki posted on Twitter. His mega crusades have, in the past, been attended by senior politicians, including the wife of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, Pastor Dorcas Rigathi.Members of the Christian cult were reportedly told they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death.
Since Friday, investigators have unearthed the bodies of 95 members of his self-proclaimed Good News International Church from shallow graves in the forest, and a further eight were found alive and emaciated but later died.The death toll, already one of the worst in the recent history of cult-related tragedies, is expected to rise further as the Kenyan Red Cross said more than 300 people were missing.
Suspected followers of a Christian Cult sit in a car after being rescued by police from a forest at Shakahola.
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