The Kenya government says it will convert a vast coastal forest where the bodies of more than 250 people linked to a doomsday cult have been exhumed into a national memorial site.
The discovery of mass graves in Shakahola forest, a 325-hectare bush land that lies inland from the Indian Ocean town of Malindi, shocked the world.
Cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie is facing various charges in the grisly case, accused of driving his followers to death by preaching that starvation was the only path to God.
Meanwhile, investigators began a third phase of exhumation on Tuesday, unearthing nine more bodies to take the death toll to 251.
