In Kenya’s coastal Kilifi county, four individuals were discovered dead on Thursday and around a dozen more were sent to the hospital after being rescued while anticipating the end of the world.
According to the authorities, the victims, who are thought to be members of Pastor Paul Mackenzie’s Good News International Church, claimed they had been instructed to fast in order to avert “apocalyptic damnation.”
Six of the 11 persons who were recovered, according to the officials, were very ill and severely malnourished.
Following rumors’ that other people from the group were still in the bush, police declared they would start looking again for them on Friday morning.
The Shakahola Forest in Langobaya, Malindi, is where the police also discovered a large shallow burial.
”The police were unable to conduct any further activity at the mass grave because of the hostile residents in the forest believed to be the suspect’s followers” part of the report read.
The self-styled spiritual leader, who was once a contentious televangelist, has been on the investigators’ radar since he is accused of teaching a perilous theology that advises his adherents to starve themselves to death in order to get to paradise more quickly.
He was present at the crime scene when the police arrived on Thursday, April 13 in the evening and managed to rescue the victims from his sizable farm.
The pastor was charged last month for the deaths of two toddlers whose parents are among his followers. He is presently free on police bail.