28 More Bodies Found at Home of Ugandan Cultist

The house of a doomsday sect leader revealed another scene of slaughter Tuesday, as prisoners on a work detail smashed through a concrete floor and discovered a hidden mass grave.

By nightfall, when work stopped, the bodies of 28 people, including at least three children, had been unearthed. Many apparently were strangled, some with knotted cloth that still ringed their necks.

More corpses were stuffed beneath the floor of the 10-by-10-foot room adjoining the foyer of a home owned by Dominic Kataribabo, a defrocked Roman Catholic priest.

On Monday, authorities exhumed the remains of 74 people from a small field behind Kataribabo’s house.

Police said that the approximately 700 dead found so far in mass graves and a burned-out church, including more than 100 children, appeared to have been slain systematically by the leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, two of whom police believe are now on the run from the law.

Scenes of horror linked to the apocalyptic sect have played out repeatedly since March 17, when fire engulfed the chapel of a sect compound in nearby Kanungu. About 500 people burned to death in that inferno, which authorities initially called a mass suicide.

Authorities are pursuing the two main leaders of the movement, Keredonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibwetere. Police speculate that Kataribabo may have died in the church blaze.