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Kenya’s interior minister said on Thursday that they have arrested one of the country’s highest-profile pastors and he would face charges over the “mass killing of his followers”.

This is happening just days after the discovery of dozens of bodies linked to another church.

Ezekiel Odero, the head of the New Life Prayer Centre and Church, “has been arrested and is being processed to face criminal charges related to the mass killing of his followers,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said in a statement.

“The said church has been shut down. The over 100 people who were holed up at the premises have been evacuated and will be required to give statements,” he added.

Odero, dressed in his signature all-white garb and clutching a Bible, was transferred from the coastal town of Malindi, where his church is headquartered, to the regional police headquarters in Mombasa for questioning.