Autopsies of bodies found in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where members of an evangelical sect practising extreme fasting were meeting, have revealed missing organs on some bodies, according to a court document seen Tuesday by AFP.

More than 100 bodies, most of them children, have so far been found in the investigation into the "Shakahola forest massacre", the revelation of which has caused shock and incomprehension in the religious East African country.

According to the autopsies carried out on 112 bodies, most of the victims died of hunger, probably after having followed the preaching of Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed pastor of the International Church of Good News who advocated fasting "to meet Jesus".

Some of the victims - including children - were however strangled, beaten or suffocated, the head of forensic operations, Dr Johansen Oduor, said last week.

In the document dated Monday, the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) requested the freezing of bank accounts of Pastor Ezekiel Odero, who was arrested on 28 April in the case and released on bail on Thursday. According to the DCI, the influential pastor received "huge cash transactions" from congregants who had asked Mackenzie to sell their properties.

A Nairobi court on Monday ordered the freezing of more than 20 accounts belonging to Ezekiel Odero for 30 days. The search for bodies and mass graves, suspended due to bad weather, resumed on Tuesday in the Shakahola forest.

Pastor Mackenzie will be prosecuted for "terrorism", prosecutors announced on 2 May. A court in Mombasa, Kenya's second city, is due to rule on Wednesday on whether to extend his detention for another 90 days.