/ 31 March 2000

ANOTHER ARREST AFTER CULT DEATHS

UGANDAN police said on Friday they had held a second person for questioning, following the deaths of close to 800 followers of a doomsday cult. Joseph Ssettuba Ssemande, alias “The Bishop” was arrested on Thursday in Kijjumba village in the southwestern Rakai district, deputy police spokesman John Kimera said. On Thursday, police said that had taken into custody Amooti Mutazindwa, assistant district commissioner for Kanungu in the southwestern Rukungiri district, where more than 300 members of the Ten Commandments of God cult died in a church fire on March 17.