The death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki says.
who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday, calling for the group’s leader to spend the rest of his life in prison.
News videos showed mud huts with palm thatched roofs, scattered among clusters of thorn trees and scrub bushes. Kindiki said three more people had been rescued alive, bringing the total number of survivors found so far to 34.
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