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FILE PHOTO: Workers take shelter while digging the ground to exhume bodies from the mass-grave site in Kenya. /CFP
The bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said on Monday, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a religious cult.
On Monday investigators said they had completed 10 autopsies, comprising nine children aged between 18 months and 10 years, and one female adult, from the 101 bodies discovered last month in shallow graves in Shakahola Forest, Kilifi County.
Authorities say the dead were followers of the Good News International Church, lead by pastor Paul Mackenzie.
Eight cult members who were found emaciated in the forest died later. So far, 44 people have been rescued.
Mackenzie has been in police custody since April 14 alongside 14 other suspected cult members.
On Sunday, President William Ruto said he would appoint a judicial commission of inquiry this week to probe what happened in Shakahola.
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