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Eighty-One More Bodies Discovered in Uganda

Aired March 29, 2000 - 6:13 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: In Uganda Wednesday, 81 more bodies were removed from a pit under a cult leader's house in Rugazi. That brings to at least 673 the total number of dead found this month in mass graves and a burned-out church.

CNN's Catherine Bond reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CATHERINE BOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An overpowering stench of death at the site where Ugandan police say they found more evidence of the mass murder of members of a religious cult and their children. Inside, a pile of brick and concrete from a hole in the floor of a hallway where dozens of decomposing bodies were unearthed. Witnesses say authorities say bodies may have been here as long as a month.

(on camera): More than 150 bodies have been exhumed and reburied at this site, the house and garden of a former Catholic priest who became a cult leader.

(voice-over): Father Dominic Kataribaabo, the man who lived here, is suspected of masterminding killings at this site, one of three sites associated with the cult examined so far to contain large numbers of bodies.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): They would have to be killed from here because they had no vehicle so they can be transported from here.

BOND: Police began investigating the restoration of the 10 Commandments religious cult after a fire in a church compound nearly two weeks ago in which more than 330 cult members died. Police, at first, considered the deaths to be a mass suicide. Now they believe the fire may have been part of a mass murder. It's not clear whether Father Dominic died in that fire. Ugandan police have asked for international assistance in tracking church leaders.

Several cult leaders are thought to be on the run, using money taken from followers like this woman, who says she left when they insisted she sell everything she owned.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: After selling that, you give the money to them. Several cult leaders are thought to be on the run, using money taken from followers like this woman, who says she left when they insisted she sell everything she owned.

After selling that, you give the money to them.

BOND: But if money was a motive for this mass murder, many other questions remain unanswered, not least how, until now, the killings of so many went unnoticed.

Catherine Bond, CNN, Rugazi, Uganda.

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