Video: 'Oct. 5, 1994: Cult Suicide in Switzerland'

(Wednesday, October 5, 1994, around 5 a.m. CET) — 48 people were found dead today in an apparent murder-suicide carried out simultaneously in two Swiss villages by members of a secret religious doomsday cult known as the Order of the Solar Temple; five other bodies were found the same week in a building owned by the sect near Montreal, Canada.