Related
Translate
Get RNB via RSS
 |
RNB's RSS feed What is this? |
Get RNB via Email
 |
 Subscribe by Email What is this? |
Follow: Twitter
Most Popular
This Week:
- Guyana’s Jonestown suicide site gets plaque
- Scientology practices ‘putting people at risk’
- Recession: Muslim schools in UK under threat of closure
- Australian senator tells Parliament of widespread criminal conduct within the Church of Scientology
- When a child dies, faith is no defense
- World’s oldest ocean-going passenger ship, ministry ship Doulos, to stop sailing
- Israel Charges Extremist With Attempted Murder Of Messianic Family
- Scientology’s feet held to the fire in Australia: Struggle between a church and the state
- 1-year prison term for man who participated in cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites
- Australian police take up complaints about Scientology
Cult Leader Found Dead in Concrete-Sealed Room
More articles on this topic: South KoreaYongin, South Korea, 14 December: Police found the remains of a religious cult leader on Tuesday [14 December] while acting on tips that his followers put him in a room and sealed it with concrete in an attempt to allow him to experience immortality and resurrection.
Only skeletal remains of the cult leader, identified as Song, 54, were laid on a bed in the basement room of a building in Yongin, about 50 km south of Seoul, when police destroyed the seal and entered the room.
About 150 police were mobilized for the operation, which began around 1 p.m. [local time]. Police said Song is thought to have starved to death.
Four suspects were taken into custody for questioning, including the cult’s current leader, identified as Lee, 56, police said. They are suspected of having carried out the experiment in 1999, police said.
What You Can Do From Here
|
Read More Articles On These Topics
 Share, Blog About, Bookmark, or Email This Article
Subscribe
Read Another Article
 Previous entry: A Catalogue of Genocide Next entry: Dutch watch Van Gogh’s last film
RNB Homepage with latest headlinesFind Related Information
Find Related Books
|
Share This Article
To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:
