Kenya cult leader charged with 191 counts of murder: court
Kenya cult leader charged with 191 counts of murder: court | World News
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Kenya cult leader charged with 191 counts of murder: court | World News
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that number buried in a forest. Prosecutors say Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended, in one of the world's worst cult-related disasters in recent history. The followers of his Good News International Church lived in several se
A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murdering nearly 200 children in a forest near the Indian Ocean.
A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean.
The 191 children were among the 425 victims found in the Shakahola forest in coastal Kenya last year.