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Kenya starvation cult toll climbs to 83 as more bodies found

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The local spiritual leaders from Kaya-Giriama ethnic group wait for the transport to visit the mass-grave site in the forest in Shakahola, outside the coastal town of Malindi, on April 24, 2023. - The death toll in a case involving a Kenyan cult that practised starvation climbed to 73 on April 24, 2023, police sources told AFP as investigators unearthed more corpses from mass graves in a forest near the coast. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Kenyan investigators on Tuesday exhumed 10 more bodies from mass graves linked to a starvation cult, bringing the total number of victims to 83, an AFP journalist at the scene…

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