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cult death toll: 780 (07/21/2001)
Ugandan police said yesterday the final death toll from a doomsday
cult massacre and mass suicide earlier this year was 780.
Hundreds of members of the Movement for the Restoration of the
Ten Commandments were burnt alive in a church in Kanungu, western
Uganda, in March.
Police believe cult leaders systematically killed another 400 of
their followers after a prediction that the world would end at the
start of 2000 failed to come true.
"According to police pathologists, 780 people died not only
in the church but in the other graves we unearthed around the country,"
police spokesman said.
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