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Footage surfaces of underground sect
Russian man kept dozens of children of children underground for 10 years in a bid to create Islamic caliphate.
Last Modified: 11 Aug 2012 20:41

Russian authorities have released pictures of a compound where 27 children were kept underground for up to 10 years.

Their parents are part of a Muslim sect whose leader calls himself a prophet, shunned the outside world and apparently wanted to build his own Islamic Caliphate on the property.

Al Jazeera's Hayder Abbasi reports.

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