By HUW BORLAND - SKY NEWS ONLINE
Updated: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:17:27 UTC

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A religious sect of 13 people - including several children - have been found safe and well after going missing and sparking fears of a mass suicide.

Authorities in southern California had been searching a desert outside Los Angeles for the group.

The sect included three sisters, aged 30, 32 and 40 years, a 19-year-old man and eight children, aged eight to 17.

It was headed by "cult-like leader" Reyna Marisol Chicas, according to officials.

Police were alerted after two husbands reported on Saturday that their wives had gone missing after attending a prayer meeting.

According to the Los Angeles Times, a California Highway Patrol "alert" said: "It is believed, through further investigation, that (their) intentions are to commit mass suicide.

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