A Kenyan cult was preparing for the end of the world under the instruction of their its powerful pastor, say investigators. Followers believed that starvation was their ticket to their salvation.
CNN has traveled here as investigators uncover what could become one of the worst mass suicides in recent memory. Detectives say that the cult community was split into eight separate settlements with biblical names such as Galilee and Bethlehem. In site after site, shallow graves disturb the dirt. Many of the graves were unmarked. Already, more than 300 sets of bodies have been recovered. But Kenyan interior ministry officials say that scores of mass graves remain.
Ruto condemned the grim discovery at Shakahola in the strongest terms, saying “we must as a nation continue to be on the lookout for those who abuse even the religious sector,” adding that Mackenzie belongs in jail. Poverty is also a significant factor in driving people to more extreme preachers, Wango said. “People are looking for a way out of their poverty, a way out of their desperation. And here is a religion that offers them a way out,” he says.
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