03/30/00- Updated 02:29 PM ET

Ugandan authorities search new graves

 
Workers exhume another corpse (AP).
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Villagers uncover more bodies
RUSHOJWA, Uganda - Ugandan authorities pulled 80 more bodies from the reddish earth at a fourth compound connected to a Christian doomsday sect Thursday as investigators questioned a former local official about the cult. Some 724 bodies have been found so far, making this one of the worst mass murders in recent history, and the grim count is expected to rise. A neighbor said people here would regularly "vanish" and that police had been called to the compound at least twice but that after an investigation late last year, they didn't respond. In an interview in London, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accused district and regional officials of suppressing intelligence reports on the activities of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.