Police sounded an alarm about the rising rate of cultism in the area saying there was a need for serious attention to the issue.
Security agents had been tipped off that there were dozens of people starving to death at a private farm
The victims were starving after being informed this was part of the way to go and meet Jesus.
Police investigations have revealed instances of deep-rooted cultism, where individuals exhibit unusual characteristics.
According to police, the person behind the brainwashing was one Makenzie Nthenge a pastor of Good News International Church.
The informer who was an insider in the church further alleged that there is a mass shallow grave of victims of that brainwashing totaling 31 bodies in an unidentified place at Shakahola Forest within Langobaya in Malindi Sub County.
On Thursday, April 13, a contingent of police visited the scene for a fact-finding mission and manager to reach a few households.
Police said they managed to rescue 15 people.
Six of the victims were badly emaciated and in critical condition.
Medics from Malindi were called in to assist in evacuation but while in process of rescuing the victims, four of them died.
They could not walk when the police arrived.
The other 11 rescued victims have been admitted to Malindi sub-county hospital.
Three of them are in critical condition.
Police said they could not get details of the deceased and will need to do it through the elimination of fingerprints which were taken for identification.
Those admitted were identified as Allan Obiero aged 17 from Maajengo in Kisumu, Wycliffe Waimoi aged 43 from Kisumu West, Paul Karisa Katana from Bamba in Kilifi and Jane Nyambura aged 38 from Vihiga.
Others were Mercy Aoko aged 35 years from Kisumu, Felix Wandera aged 37 from Busia, David Abuhaya aged 49 from Vihiga, Collins Kabaye aged 22 from Mbale, Busia and Monica Masika aged 36 from Kakamega.
Police also rescued Alfred Shitemi aged 32 years from Vihiga and an unknown female adult under critical condition.
The team was unable to identify the mass grave by virtue of vast land and hostile residents in the forest, police said.
It is further suspected that there are many victims in the forest land believed to belong to the suspect.
The bodies were taken to Malindi Sub-County Hospital mortuary pending identification and autopsy.
No arrest was made at the time and efforts to get the owner of the occult church are ongoing.
Residents have been telling security chiefs of the existence of the cult in the area.
The revelations came after the cult leader was apprehended on allegations of directing parents to starve two children in to death to protect them from a looming catastrophe.
According to one of the survivors, the fasting was allegedly meant to assure children of ascension to heaven and save them from a looming calamity.
Allegedly, the pastor encouraged his congregants to fast, especially children. He reportedly believed that the future is full of disasters and that children should die and inherit the kingdom of God.
Malindi sub-County police boss John Kemboi said special attention is being paid to the issue for now.