THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Police launched a helicopter search for 13 missing cult members on Sunday amid fears they had gone to a California desert to commit mass suicide.The religious sect included eight children, aged as young as three, and was led by a suburban housewife Reyna Marisol Chicas, 32.
She took her two children Ezequel, 15, and Genisis, 12, with her, police said.
The group, made up of El Salvadorian immigrants, left behind a bag with a relative which contained farewell notes in which members indicated the world was about to end and they were “going to heaven.”
An alert issued by the California Highway Patrol said: “It is believed, through further investigation, that their intentions are to commit mass suicide.” >>> Nick Allen in Los Angeles | Sunday, September 19, 2010
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Cult members 'planning mass suicide' discovered praying for end to sexual immorality: Members of a religious cult feared to be planning a mass suicide in a California desert were discovered hours after they went missing. >>> Nick Allen in Los Angeles | Sunday, September 19, 2010
