A handful of Russian doomsday-cult members Friday crawled out of the damp cave where they had holed up for months awaiting the end of the world after authorities removed two rotting corpses from the underground lair. The nine were the last of the 35 men, women and children who had dug into a hillside near the town of Penza in November and threatened to blow themselves up with gas canisters if officials tried to forcibly remove them. The last quit the hide-out after officials found the bodies of two cult members who died in the cave and warned survivors they could be poisoned by fumes from the decomposing bodies.
