Pathologists on Thursday, May 4 announced they had completed postmortem on 100 bodies exhumed from Shakahola forest, Killfi as the exercise entered its fourth day.
Chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor said they are left with 11 bodies including a follower of pastor Paul Mackenzie who died in hospital after being rescued.
Oduor said out of the 11, eight were being preserved in the Kilifi Sub County hospital Mortuary and had been brought for postmortem to be done.
Oduor said nine families showed up and their DNA taken which brings to 58 the number of families that have so far given their DNAs.
“The total number of postmortems we did were 24 and of these three were children and 21 were adults eight males and 16 females,” he said.
He said most of the bodies were severely decomposed adding that most of the starvation is similar to what has been witnessed in the previous postmortems.
Oduor said they found two bodies with head injuries.
He said one of the bodies appeared to be of a lady who seemed to have delivered recently and there were what looked like complications of delivery that was bleeding which was seen in the uterus.
Oduor asked members of the public who are looking for their relatives to visit the Malindi Sub County hospital mortuary at 8 am so as to able to see if they could find their loved ones.
However, due to the fact that the majority of bodies are decomposed, he said families should just opt to do DNA instead of going through the 111 bodies and get traumatized yet they will not be able to identify them.
The exhumation of 15 identified graves will resume Friday, May 5.
