Another 29 bodies of believers were found today in Kenya’s Sakahola forest, where authorities continue to search for the Christian sect that called on its members to fast to death in order to go to heaven.

To date, the authorities have proceeded to exhume a total of 179 bodies. They are searching for victims in shallow graves in the Sakahola Forest and for any survivors, since hundreds of people are still missing.

On Wednesday, a Kenyan court refused to release on bail “Pastor” Paul Mackenzie, the head of the International Church of Joyful News, who is accused of ordering believers to starve, along with their children, to go to heaven before the coming the end of the world. Mackenzie’s attorney said his client is cooperating with authorities.

A local official, Rhoda Onyantsa, said today that the search was extended to other areas of this forest. Exhumations will continue tomorrow Saturday.

A mortician involved in the search told Reuters that 12 of the bodies found today belonged to children.

Earlier this year Mackenzie was arrested but released on bail on suspicion of murdering two children by starvation and drowning. He returned to Sakahola Forest and, according to relatives of his followers, told the faithful that the Second Coming would come earlier than he had originally predicted, on April 15 instead of August.