Nairobi, March 19 -- The long wait for over 400 families to bury their kin following the Shakahola deaths is about to end as preparations to release the bodies of victims are complete.

The government will start releasing the bodies after a meeting with families, marking the end of the long wait endured by the victims' families since the bodies of their loved ones were exhumed from mass graves in the Shakahola forest.

Hundreds of bodies of the Paul Mackenzie-led Good News International Church followers have been lying in Malindi mortuaries as the government sought to use DNA to identify them.

Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Director of Homicide Martin Nyuguto confirmed to the Nation that the government will release the bodi...