Shakahola starvation cult: 10 more bodies exhumed as tally hits 211

Ten more bodies have been exhumed as police officers continue to comb through Shakahola Forest in Kilifi County where victims of a suspected starvation cult are believed to have been buried.

The recovery brings the tally of bodies retrieved from the forest so far to 211, Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha said on Tuesday.

According to police reports, out of the recovered bodies, two of them were children.

The operation also saw three people, all of them male, rescued while in critical condition.

The total tally of those rescued from the forest have now hit 84, while the number of those suspected missing has risen to 610.

At the same time, four men who detectives allege may have been supervisors of the fast were also arrested.

Controversial pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge of the Good News International Church is in the middle of the massacre after he reportedly instructed his followers to starve themselves in order to "meet Jesus."

Mackenzie who is still on trial has not yet been charged.