Last cult members leave Russia cave

The last nine members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up underground for months awaiting the end of the world have abandoned their cave.

They were the remnants of group of 35 men, women and children who dug into a hillside near the Volga region town of Penza in November and threatened to blow themselves up with gas canisters if anyone tried to forcibly remove them.

The elaborate structure - complete with sleeping rooms, a makeshift kitchen and religious altars - suffered a series of partial cave-ins earlier this year caused by melting snows. The cave-ins prompted most of the group including self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov to leave.

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