The Kenyan Police on Friday exhumed at least twenty nine dead bodies of persons linked to controversial doomsday cult in the country.
This is the highest number of corpses to be dug up in a single day from the forest located at the Kalifi area.
At least 179 people believed to be members the Goodnews International Church who were killed as a result of starvation, blunt force trauma or strangulation have thus far been exhumed.
The cult led by one Pastor Paul Mackenzie had indoctrinated members to starve to death because the world is about to experience its doomsday.
Forensic teams have been digging up bodies with as much as twelve bodies buried in one shallow grave.
According to the Kenyan Red Cross, 609 members of the doomsday cult are still missing.
Although, Mackenzie claims to have shut down the church to give room for investigation.
In an interview with the Kenyan Daily Newspaper, Mackenzie denied forcing members to fast to death.
Since the investigation started in April, the number of missing cult members have tripled.
How it all started…
Trouble started when police found the corpse four person and almost 12 others in critical condition at the Kilifi county hospital in Kenya after they were rescued.
These group of persons who were discovered in the forest had been there many days after one local pastor told them to fast as they “wait to meet Jesus”.
According to the authorities, 11 people were rescued, six of them looking tin and in critical condition.
Following reports that there were more people in the forest, the police launched a search and rescue mission for more members of the group.
Meanwhile, in March, a couple had dragged the leader of the group pastor, Paul McKenzie Nthenge court after starving and suffocatinf two of their kids to death because the bad thing would soon come to the world.
The police said the last and surviving child of the couple who narrated the incident disclosed that the children were buried in shallow graves at the Kilifi forest.
Report has it that the plan is to let the children die first, then the women followed by the men before final destruction comes to the earth.