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Inside Kilifi's 'Bethlehem' where cult members starved to death 'in the name of God'

Shakahola: Village where ‘cult’ lured followers to deadly fasting

For the past three weeks, an eerie silence has engulfed Shakahola village in Kilifi County.

The once vibrant hamlet is hauntingly empty, with rows of abandoned mud houses with makuti-thatched roofs standing like ghostly sentinels.