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Friday, July 9, 1999 Published at 07:23 GMT 08:23 UK
World: Americas
Doomsday cult under guard
The Heaven's Gate cult carried out a mass suicide in 1997
Mexican police have placed 150 members of a doomsday cult under constant guard in order to prevent them committing suicide.
The cult, known as Spiritual Prayer, is based in the central Mexican state of Michoacan.
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The instruction apparently came from the group's leader, Francisco de la Cruz, who has now disappeared.
Meanwhile, in northern Colombia, police are continuing their search for around 60 members of another doomsday cult.
The Stella Maris Gnostic Church members have disappeared into the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the apparent belief that they had a rendezvous with a spaceship.
The cult members were hoping the UFO would save them from "the end of the world", according to a relative.
Nothing has been heard of them since the weekend.
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