Kenya pastor detained after followers fast to death in an attempt to meet Jesus.

Kenyan police announced on Saturday that they had detained a local cult leader after four of his followers apparently died after he instructed them to starve themselves so they might “meet Jesus.”

Eleven additional members of the Makenzie Nthenge-founded Good News International Church were found Friday in the Shakahola forest close to the town of Malindi. Three of them were taken to a hospital and are now in critical condition.

Authorities expressed their concern that there would be found additional victims.

“The pastor is under arrest after he surrendered because he knew we were looking for him,” said Charles Kamau, criminal investigations chief of Malindi sub-county.

Prior to his Monday court appearance, he was taken into jail.

After complaints of “ignorant civilians starving to death under the pretense of meeting Jesus after being brainwashed by a suspect, Makenzie Nthenge, a pastor of Good News International Church,” police conducted a raid in a forest near the coast of Kenya on Friday.

The identities of the four dead are yet unknown.

Seven men and four women, ages 17 to 49, were among the 11 who were sent to the hospital, according to the report.

On Saturday morning, Said Ali, the hospital’s administrator, informed AFP that only two of them were still there.

He claimed that several of the nine individuals who departed had rejected food or medication that had been supplied to them.

Following rumors of a potential mass grave where additional followers may have been interred, investigators were anticipated to continue their search in the Shakahola forest on Saturday.

According to local media, Nthenge was detained and charged last month after two kids died of starvation while in their parents’ care.

Later, he was freed on a bail of 700 dollars ($100,000 Kenyan shillings).