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Homicide officers excavated seven remains from four sites in Shakahola, Malindi, Kilifi County, on Friday as the investigation into Pastor Paul Mackenzie's Good News International Church increased.
The detectives also discovered 26 more burials, bringing the total number of graves identified since the start of their investigation to 58.
On day three of their investigation, officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) combed through the 800-acre woodland sheltering followers of the infamous Pastor Mackenzie.
They discovered a child's body about an hour and a half after they began exhuming remains from previously marked graves. Then they found two other victims, a mother and a child, buried together in an adjacent cemetery. The victims were covered in fabric, and the graves were excavated around three meters apart.
Several relatives of the controversial pastor's followers eagerly monitored the operation, expecting it would solve the riddle of their kin's location.
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Added Abbas, a Nigerian national in Kenya, has been camping in the jungle since Monday, looking for his six families, including his wife.
Adde explained that She had left her phone, everything at home, and a letter saying she was going to Malindi to see Jesus.
According to preliminary DCI investigations, his wife's last phone contact was with her sister. She allegedly resigned from her work at an airline firm, sold all her belongings, and booked a one-way ticket to Malindi.
Adde said that It's heartbreaking and inhuman to see what's happening here, but at least every day since Monday, they have rescued people...but none of them, the people here, have seen their relatives.
The preacher was arrested for his controversial doctrinal teaching of enticing his followers to starvation with the idea that they would die.
Detectives will continue with the process of exhuming more bodies in the forest where they had been buried.
