End-of-world cult members emerging from Russian cave

Seven female members of a Russian cult that has been holed up in a cave for months awaiting the end of the world have emerged and are being treated by emergency workers, regional officials said Friday. More than two dozen members who remain inside the cave could come out as early as today, said the official in the governor's office of the Penza region, about 400 miles southeast of Moscow. He said four children were among those remaining. Penza Vice Governor Oleg Melnichenko said the group's leader, self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov, was brought from a psychiatric hospital to help persuade the women to come out.

Source: Orlando Sentinel