81 bodies including 44 children found at Uganda cult site

The sex of one of the corpses could not be determined.

Police said there were no other graves at the site, although not all of the property had been examined closely.

The house is located on the edge of the south-western village of Rushojwa, which is 35 km northeast of Kanungu, where some 400 cult members died in a fire on March 17.

The corpses were immediately re-buried nearby after a brief autopsy.

The cult had already been blamed for the deaths of over 700 people in South-West Uganda.

Police pathologist Thaddeus Barungi said those found in Rushojwa had died quot;not more than one month ago. For only two of them I can tell with certainty how they died, by strangulation. For some of the other ones, there are no signs of physical trauma. I suspect poison.quot;

quot;Some of them, very few, they have ropes of dried banana leaves tied around the neck and mainly for the others it is green pieces of cloth twisted and tied around the neck,quot; he said.