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Shakahola bodies heaped in a container as death toll hits 446

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Homicide detectives carrying bodies of cult victims in Shakahola forest, Kilifi County. [Marioon Kithi, Standard]

Over 397 bodies of victims of the Shakahola massacre were heaped together to create space for the phase five of the exhumation exercise. Today, three more bodies have been exhumed taking the death toll to 446.

The Standard established that bodies retrieved from the shallow graves in the first four phases of the exercise going on inside the forest in Kilifi's Malindi area have been piled in one container mortuary.

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