Kenya starvation cult: Mother awaits DNA results on unearthed remains

Carolyne Odour's two young sons went missing with their father - a follower of self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie.

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Ms Odour says that amid an ongoing investigation into more deaths linked to the cult she has identified her husband's body at a mortuary in the coastal town of Malindi.

His corpse was found in July in the village of Kwa Binzaro, inland from Malindi and near the remote Shakahola Forest, where more than 400 bodies were found in 2023 in one of the worst ever cases of cult-related mass deaths.

Ms Odour is now awaiting the results of DNA tests being carried out on more than 30 recently unearthed bodies.

"I felt pain. I barely recognised him. His body was badly decomposing," Ms Odour, 40, said about her husband Samuel Owino Owoyo.