The visibly emaciated suspects pleaded not guilty on all counts, which were read out over four and half hours. This took place between January 2021 and September 2023 at Shakahola area in Malindi Sub-County within Kilifi County, according to prosecutors. Autopsies on some of the bodies found in the graves showed they died from starvation, strangulation or suffocation. Kenya's chief government pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor said last week the government will resume the search for and recovery of more bodies from the Shakahola Forest from March. The exercise had been halted so that autopsies and DNA analysis could be done on the 429 bodies already recovered, Oduor said.

Source: Ethiopian News February 21, 2024 11:57 UTC