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Jonestown site fades in jungle amid logging drive
Remains of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple lie hidden in Guyana’s jungle five miles from Port Kaituma. The Jonestown site, a former 1978 mass murder scene with 900 dead, is now part of a four million acre timber concession and rapidly vanishing under brush and new roads.
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