Certain that the world would end Thursday night, 30 people in Madrid, Spain, made plans for a mass suicide. But Spanish police dashed their hopes of being whisked away by a spaceship for rebirth in a place called "Sirius." The group has been linked to the Solar Temple, a cult blamed for 74 suicides since 1994. Police in the Canary Islands had been tracking the group's movements for some time and its leader, a German psychologist, was arrested late Wednesday on charges of inducement to suicide.
Doomsday Dream Dashed
Certain that the world would end Thursday night, 30 people in Madrid, Spain, made plans for a mass suicide. But Spanish police dashed their hopes of being whisked away by a spaceship for rebirth in a place called "Sirius." The group has been linked to the Solar Temple, a cult blamed for 74 suicides since 1994. Police in the Canary Islands had been tracking the group's movements for some time and its leader, a German psychologist, was arrested late Wednesday on charges of inducement to suicide.
