Eleven more bodies were Wednesday exhumed in Shakahola forest graves in phase two of the operation sending the tally to 145.
This is after another body was found in a thicket.
Two people were rescued increasing to 70 those rescued as 579 people are reported missing so far.
This means more bodies could be buried therein.
Police have identified 20 new grave sites which they are working on.
Witnesses said the two rescued were fasting and praying in a thicket when the security teams arrived.
It shows they have been without food for more than two weeks now since when the area was cordoned off and declared a disturbed area.
The government has sent a 30-day cancellation notice to the New Life Church of Pastor Ezekiel Odero and Good News International ministries of Paul Mackenzie, Registrar of Societies Jane Joram has told the Senate Ad hoc committee investigating the Shakahola deaths.
The two churches have been under investigation for the Shakahola cult in which more than 100 people starved themselves so they could go to heaven.
Others, post-mortems revealed, were strangled and suffocated.
They were all buried in mass graves.
There are 40,000 registered religious organizations in Kenya, she said.
The second phase of the exhumation exercise started Tuesday with Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki presiding over the process, which he described as a legal, medical, and human rights exercise that must be undertaken methodically and carefully to protect the dignity and privacy of families of the deceased persons.
“The Government will avail all information on the ongoing exercise, and limited access to the exhumation sites is to ensure that there is no violation of fundamental rights,” he said.
Kindiki said 25 people have so far been arrested, and the investigation team is closing in on level two and level three perpetrators who aided the cult leader Paul Mackenzie to execute the heinous atrocity.
The entire 50,000-acre Chakama ranch remains a security area and scene of the crime with limited access for all persons who are unauthorized.
Dozens more bodies are believed to be buried in shallow graves therein.
Mackenzie, who is in police custody, is being investigated for influencing his followers to starve to death in order to meet their maker.
Police also suspect that some of the victims did not starve to death and may have been killed and then buried on the property.
He has denied wrongdoing but has been refused bail.
He insists that he shut down his church in 2019.
The followers say he told them to starve themselves in order to “meet Jesus”.
