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Jonestown
Jonestown was a settlement in the forest of north-western Guyana founded by the American cult the Peoples Temple under Jim Jones. On 18 November 1978, after members killed US Congressman Leo Ryan and others at a nearby airstrip, 918 people died there and in Georgetown, most by drinking poisoned fruit punch, in a mass murder-suicide.
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