CNN —The family members clutched each other and wailed as attendants pulled small bundles out of the funeral van.
On Tuesday, Wanje became the first family member to retrieve the bodies of his relatives for burial after they became victims of a tragedy, dubbed the Shakahola massacre, that many Kenyans find hard to comprehend.
Mortuary workers move the remains of several members of the same family who were victims of the Kenyan starvation cult.
Forensic experts and volunteers have spent months finding and digging up remains of the cult members.
Of those, only 34 positive DNA matches to surviving family members have been made, said Kenya’s chief pathologist, Johansen Oduor.
Persons:
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Malindi, AFP, Kenya