Fourteen more members of a doomsday cult in southern Russia left a cave Tuesday after waiting inside for the end of the world since November, authorities said. The group included two children, ages 8 and 14, Dmitry Eskin of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry told CNN.On Friday, seven other members of the cult left the cave and moved into the home of the cult leader, Father Pyotr Kuznetsov, who has been living in the nearby village of Nikolskoye.
Police detained him before he could enter the cave with his followers. He made several trips with authorities to ask cult members to leave.
The partial exodus began after authorities gave into cult members' demands that Kuznetsov be released from a mental institution.
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