The government has exhumed twelve more bodies from Shakahola, bringing the massacre's death toll to 403.

 Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha has noted that the exhumations will resume on July 19.

Further, Onyancha says 37 more suspects have been rescued, with 258 DNA samples having been analysed.

Police are in the fourth phase of exhumation in the ongoing probe into a cult whose members are said to have starved themselves to heaven.

Followers of preacher Paul Mackenzie were buried in the forest located in Chakama Ranch after starving themselves to death.