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find bodies at fourth compound (03/31/2001)
Labourers yesterday unearthed 80 more bodies, mostly women and
children, at a fourth compound linked to a Christian doomsday sect.
The discoveries raise the death toll from a church fire and mass
killings to more than 724.
In their latest search for victims of the secretive religious sect,
police were concentrating on a hilltop village in southwestern Uganda
where a neighbour said people would regularly "vanish."
Ugandan authorities said yesterday they had arrested a local government
official for suspected links with the Christian Doomsday cult.
Internal Affairs Minister Edward Rugumayo said police had arrested
Reverend Amooti Mutazindwa, an assistant district commissioner in
southwest Uganda, for allegedly suppressing an intelligence report
that suggested the cult posed a security threat.
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