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Unidentified victims of Shakahola massacre to be buried in mass graves

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Exhumed bodies at the Shakahola fasting cult crime scene. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]

Hundreds of unidentified bodies of followers of controversial pastor Paul Makenzi will be buried in marked graves in Shakahola forest, Malindi, Kilifi County.

Chief Government Pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor said due to failure to identify the bodies even through DNA, they will be interred in the forest.

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