The number of alleged members of a Christian sect who fasted to death in a forest in southern Kenya to meet Jesus Christ is counted as early as 211. Three people were rescued, although their health condition is serious, bringing the death toll to 84.
Almost all the dead of the so-called "Shakahola massacre", as the forest in which the tragedy happened is called, have been exhumed from graves and mass graves found in that forest. The bodies of at least three minors and one adult also had traces of strangulation and suffocation.