Kenya cult leader charged with terrorism-related crimes in starvation deaths

The head of the Good News International Church, ordered his followers in southeastern Kenya to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended.

Relatives of followers of a Christian cult named as Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death in Shakahola, stand outside the steel gate of the Malindi sub district hospital mortuary in Malindi, Kilifi county, Kenya April 27, 2023.

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ByREUTERS

JANUARY 18, 2024 19:02