{"id":879,"date":"2023-08-02T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:54:55","slug":"rescued-kenya-cult-followers-to-face-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/02\/rescued-kenya-cult-followers-to-face-murder-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued Kenya cult followers to face murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forty-one people who were rescued from a doomsday cult in Kenya earlier this year are to be charged alongside the leader with murder and other offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors say the victims-turned-suspects were parents or grandparents of children who died or are missing \u2013 and allege that they were culpable for what happened to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cult\u2019s leader, Paul Mackenzie, is accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death to enter heaven before the world ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police investigating the apparent mass suicide have so far exhumed over 400 bodies from the Shakahola forest in south-eastern Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 600 people are still missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><strong>Dmedia News <br>(Domajuosu 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