| Police
offer reward for cult leaders (04/12/2000)
Police yesterday offered rewards of 2 million shillings (US$1,300)
for information leading to the arrests of six cult leaders whose
followers were killed in Uganda.
Police have been searching for the leaders since 530 people were
killed in a cult chapel fire in the village of Kanungu on March
17. Following the fire, authorities unearthed a series of mass graves
in nearby villages, turning up 394 more corpses, many of them strangled
or stabbed.
Police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi said the rewards are available
to anyone - inside or outside Uganda - who helps track down the
cult leaders.
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