The cult followers are believed to have starved themselves to dying. (Representational)

Nairobi, Kenya:

Kenyan police mentioned Sunday that they had uncovered our bodies of one other 26 folks believed to be members of a cult, bringing to 47 the variety of corpses linked to the motion present in three days.

“Today we have exhumed 26 more bodies and this brings the total number of bodies from that place to 47,” mentioned the top of felony investigations in Malindi, japanese Kenya, Charles Kamau.

On Saturday police sources mentioned 21 our bodies had been exhumed in Kenya in a probe right into a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to dying.

Officials had earlier reported seven deaths in reference to the investigation in japanese Kenya following the arrest of Makenzie Nthenge, who reportedly instructed followers to starve themselves with a purpose to “meet Jesus”.

Nthenge, chief of the Good News International Church, turned himself in to police and was charged final month, in accordance with native media, after two youngsters starved to dying within the custody of their mother and father.

He was later launched on bail of 100,000 Kenyan shillings ($700).

Police reported his arrest on April 15 after discovering the our bodies of 4 of Nthenge’s followers. Kenyan police mentioned on Friday that that they had exhumed three different our bodies.

Eleven different followers of the church — the youngest simply 17 — had been taken to hospital, three of them in crucial situation, after being rescued on April 14.

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