As It Happens6:31Kenyan authorities ignored warnings about death cult, says human rights group
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Dozens of lives could have been spared if Kenyan authorities had acted sooner to shut down a notorious Christian death cult, says a local social justice organization.
As of Tuesday, Kenyan authorities had recovered 89 bodies — some of them children — from mass graves in the Shakahola forest in eastern Kenya, the country’s interior minister said.
The country’s police chief said the dead were followers of a cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death.
The cult’s purported leader has been arrested,
