Russian doomsday sect leader attempts suicide: report

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

NIKOLSKOYE, Russia (AFP) — The leader of a Russian doomsday sect that barricaded itself in a cave to wait for the Apocalypse has attempted to commit suicide, Russian media reported on Thursday, citing an official.

The incident came as expectations grew that the last 11 members of the Orthodox Christian sect out of 35 cultists who holed themselves up in the cave will come to the surface amid fears that rain could make the cave collapse.

Pyotr Kuznetsov stayed on the surface more than five months ago when his followers, who refuse to use telephones and believe bar codes are sinful, went underground some 700 kilometres (435 miles) southeast of Moscow.

He has been detained and treated in a psychiatric hospital since November but has been released by officials to...

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