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When one member of the security forces tried to
get into the farm on the 51st day, smoke suddenly
began rising. The security forces announced that
David Koresh had set fire to the farm, and that
booby traps installed in various parts of it had
David Koresh
turned the place into an inferno, in which some
90 people burned to death.

Deviant cults again hit the headlines in 1997, when some 40 people
wearing black T-shirts and sports-shoes committed mass suicide in the
north of San Diego. Aged between 26 and 72, they had killed themselves
out of a belief that the Hale-Bopp comet, which was then passing by the
earth, would carry them to a higher level of evolution. This is how their
ideas were expressed on their website:
The joy is that our Older Member in the Evolutionary Level above
human has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopp's approach is the
"marker" we've been waiting for. … Our 22 years of classroom here on
planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion "graduation" from the
Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave "this