Kenyan church cult massacre that killed hundreds haunts survivors

FILE - Salama Masha, a former follower of extremist evangelical leader Paul Mackenzie, stands outside a makeshift house near the scene where dozens of bodies were found in shallow graves in the village of Shakahola in southern Kenya, on Sept. 5, 2024. FILE - Paul Mackenzie, a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers, to starve themselves to death in Shakahola forest, is escorted to the Malindi Law Courts in Malindi, Kilifi, Jan. 17, 2024. FILE - Body bags are laid out at the scene where dozens of bodies, believed to be followers of extremist evangelical leader Paul Mackenzie, have been found in shallow graves in the village of Shakahola, Kenya, on April 24, 2023.

Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn't numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head and torso faced opposite directions.