THE TELEGRAPH: Around 30 members of a Russian cult have shut themselves inside a remote cave to await the end of the world and are threatening to commit suicide if police intervene, officials and media said today.
"They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up," an official in the local prosecutor's office said by telephone.
"They threaten to detonate a gas tank and blow themselves up." Russian cult threatens mass suicide in cave (more)
Mark Alexander
