Cult goes off its medication

At least 30 members of a Russian doomsday cult have barricaded themselves in a remote cave to await the end of the world and are threatening to commit suicide if police intervene.

According to a report by Reuters, they are hidden inside a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia. The group--which includes four children-- believes the world will end sometime in May next year.

Their 43-year-old leader, Pyotr Kuznetsov, has been sleeping in a coffin for the last few months and did not join them in the cave. Authorities say he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Police took Kuznetsov to the cave to persuade his followers to come out but without success.

(This, of course, is not a funny situation. But wouldn't a bunker-busting canister of Wellbutrin be in order here?)

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