From the ArcaMax Publishing, Religion & Spirituality Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/religionandspirituality/s-348690-134621
Authorities were conducting forensic tests Friday on the bodies of two
women who died during a seven-month stay in a cave with Russian
doomsday cult members.
The bodies were exhumed shortly after the last nine members of the
cult were persuaded by police to come out of the cave in the Penza
region southeast of Moscow, the Interfax news agency said.
"The exhumation of the second body that laid in the immediate vicinity
of the survivors in the cave posed a real threat of poisoning by the
smell of decaying bodies," Vladimir Provotorov, head of the Bekovsky
region, told Interfax. "The surviving cult members were therefore
offered to leave the cave voluntarily. The people agreed and came out
to the surface early in the morning on Friday."
The nine people who left the cave were in "normal, satisfactory
condition," Provotorov said, but didn't reveal where the surviving
cult members were taken.
Thirty-five people descended into the cave in November, fearing the
end of world was at hand. Seven women came out of cave in March and 17
more came out in April.