Authorities in Penza check reports about death of Belarusian in cult sect's bunker
The authorities in the Russian region of Penza are set to check the reports about the death of two sect members that locked themselves up in a bunker last November to wait for what they described as the end of the world. The information was revealed by Vital Nedagon, one of the cult sect leaders, Anton Sharonov, a spokesperson for the local government told the Russian news agency Ria-Novosti. The information about two dead sect members, including a female from Belarus, appeared in the local media.
Anton Sharonov could not immediately confirm the deaths and said that the authorities understood that 11 people were still underground in the bunker. "The lists of the people in the cave were drawn up by sect leader Pyotr Kuznetsov. The police later identified the absence of those people at their residential addresses", Sharonov said.
A total of 35 people locked themselves up in a bunker in November 2007 in the Penza region of Russia. They decided to remain their till "the end of the word". They would threaten to burn themselves if the security forces would attempt to remove them by force. 24 people, including four children, left the cave in the beginning of April and now live as two groups in the village of Nikolskoye.
Anton Sharonov could not immediately confirm the deaths and said that the authorities understood that 11 people were still underground in the bunker. "The lists of the people in the cave were drawn up by sect leader Pyotr Kuznetsov. The police later identified the absence of those people at their residential addresses", Sharonov said.
A total of 35 people locked themselves up in a bunker in November 2007 in the Penza region of Russia. They decided to remain their till "the end of the word". They would threaten to burn themselves if the security forces would attempt to remove them by force. 24 people, including four children, left the cave in the beginning of April and now live as two groups in the village of Nikolskoye.
