Police exhume 55 more bodies

Kampala - Ugandan police yesterday exhumed 55 more bodies from a mass grave at the home of a leader of the doomsday cult thought…

Kampala - Ugandan police yesterday exhumed 55 more bodies from a mass grave at the home of a leader of the doomsday cult thought to have killed 1,000 followers, a police spokesman said.

He said the bodies, exhumed from the house rented by Father Dominic Kataribabo, included those of 22 women, 15 men, eight boys and 10 girls.

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