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Japan arrests gas attack cult fugitive
TOKYO — A former member of Japan’s Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult responsible for the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway was arrested by police on Sunday, reports said. Police officers found a woman believed to be Naoko Kikuchi, 40, a former Aum member who had been on…
Aum ‘doomsday’ cult fugitive surrenders after 17 years on the run
A former member of Japan’s Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult, which was responsible for the 1995 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, was arrested Sunday after almost 17 years on the run, police said. Makoto Hirata, 46, turned himself into a police station in central Tokyo just 10 minutes before…
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