DeclinetoState
03-28-2008, 09:39 PM
Mar 28 06:07 PM US/Eastern
By MIKE ECKEL
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - Seven women who had holed up in a cave for months other members of a Russian cult awaiting the end of the world emerged Friday night and were being treated by emergency workers, regional officials said.
More than two dozen others remained behind but were expected to come out as early as Saturday, the governor's office (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=governor%27s%20office&sid=breitbart.com) said.
About 35 members of the Christian cult entered the cave near the village of Nikolskoye, 400 miles southeast of Moscow, in early November to await the end of the world, which they expected in May. They threatened to detonate gas canisters (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=gas%20canisters&sid=breitbart.com) if police tried to remove them by force.
The vice governor of the Penza region, Oleg Melnichenko, said in televised comments that the seven women came out voluntarily, carrying satchels with their belongings. He said the cult leader, the self- declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov, was brought from a local psychiatric hospital (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=psychiatric%20hospital&sid=breitbart.com) to help persuade the women to leave.
More (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VMMPLG0&show_article=1)
They have their religious nuts, too, it seems.
By MIKE ECKEL
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - Seven women who had holed up in a cave for months other members of a Russian cult awaiting the end of the world emerged Friday night and were being treated by emergency workers, regional officials said.
More than two dozen others remained behind but were expected to come out as early as Saturday, the governor's office (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=governor%27s%20office&sid=breitbart.com) said.
About 35 members of the Christian cult entered the cave near the village of Nikolskoye, 400 miles southeast of Moscow, in early November to await the end of the world, which they expected in May. They threatened to detonate gas canisters (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=gas%20canisters&sid=breitbart.com) if police tried to remove them by force.
The vice governor of the Penza region, Oleg Melnichenko, said in televised comments that the seven women came out voluntarily, carrying satchels with their belongings. He said the cult leader, the self- declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov, was brought from a local psychiatric hospital (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=psychiatric%20hospital&sid=breitbart.com) to help persuade the women to leave.
More (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VMMPLG0&show_article=1)
They have their religious nuts, too, it seems.