Kenyan authorities revealed Thursday that the death toll from the "massacre" of a local pastor reached 226. 15 new bodies were found in the Chakahola forest in southeastern Kenya.
Le Monde quoted medical sources as confirming that among the victims were children who were beaten and strangled. Kenyan President William Ruto initiated the establishment of a working group to oversee the preparation of a legal framework to regulate the work of Christian religious institutions and control the mechanisms of their operation, the newspaper said.