Police in Kilifi County have recovered 13 new graves at Kwa Binzaro, a village near the Shakahola area, and confirmed 11 deaths so far.

According to authorities, this brings the total number of identified graves in the area to 21.

The village of Kwa Binzaro is located just a few kilometres from the infamous Shakahola Forest, where over 400 people allegedly died from starvation in a tragedy associated with a doomsday cult.

Homicide detectives stated that they returned to the five-acre site to prepare for planned exhumations.