Calgary Herald from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 12
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- Calgary Heraldi
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- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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to will on not for CALGARY HERALD Friday, Jury 21, 2000 WORLD IN BRIEF FROM HERALD NEWS SERVICES Ugandan cult deaths total 780 KAMPALA, UGANDA Ugandan police said on Thursday the final death toll from a doomsday cult massacre and mass suicide earlier this year was 780. Hundreds of members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments were burned alive in a church in Kanungu, western Uganda, in March. Police believe cult leaders systematically killed another 400 of their followers after a prediction that the world would end at the start of 2000 failed to come true. Volcano spews ash 800 metres in air SANTIAGO, CHILE A towering volcano in northern Chile erupted Thursday spitting ash about 800 metres into the air, authorities said. The Lascar volcano, located about 1,600 kilometres north of Santiago, erupted around noon.
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