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Russian cult members barricaded in cave 'to blow themselves up before end of world'

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Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 12:19 PM by emad

Source: Daily Mail

At least 30 members of a Russian doomsday cult have barricaded themselves in a remote cave to await the end of the world and are threatening to commit suicide if police intervene, officials said today.

The cult members, who include 29 adults and four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia.

"They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up," an official in the local prosecutor's office said.

They threaten to detonate a gas tank and blow themselves up."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=494252&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

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