France, Oct. 18 -- In March 2023, a man reported to Kenyan police that relatives who had joined a new church had not come home. Authorities began searching the area, around the Shakahola forest, near the coastal town of Malindi - and found hundreds of shallow graves.

While a number of people were also found alive after the alert had been raised, hundreds more remain missing to this day.

Elizabeth Dzidza Mwatsuma's remains were identified through DNA profiling more than three years after she disappeared into the Shakahola forest.

In May this year, her relative Alice Mwajuma Deche was finally able to bury her.

But Deche, 66, still has 11 more members of her family to find. She lost two children and 10 grandchildren in the massacre.

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