Word: cult
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...deliberate act, the gas was not poisonous. No one was seriously injured. TIME Japan correspondent Irene Maciulis-Kunii said that some in Japan are even seeing this as the perfect terrorist attack: "You make your point, and nobody really gets hurt."Aum Shinri Kyo, the Japanese cult suspected in the Mar. 20nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways, immediately denied involvement. Police said they believe the attack differs enough from the one in Tokyo to be a copycat crime. People affected by the fumes today complained of stinging eyes, coughs and dizziness, but there were no reports of serious or life-threatening...
Panic erupted in Yokohama's main train station this morning when a mysterious gas spread through an underground passage, sickening at least 261 people.Aum Shinri Kyo, the Japanese cult suspectedin theMar. 20 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways, immediately denied any involvement. Thousands of commuters poured out of the station, jamming sidewalks and streets, while sirens wailed and about 10 police helicopters circled overhead. Police, firefighters and chemical weapons experts, some wearing gas masks, were checking the station for the source of a foul chemical odor. (A college student told the Associated Press she saw firefighters clad removing...
...predicted in a book released last month byAum Shinrikyo cultleader Shoko Asahara. He is believed to have directed thenerve gas attack that killed 11 people in Tokyo subwayslast month. Today, Japanese police carried 53 children from the Aum Shinrikyo compound near Mt. Fuji, many wearing headgear with wires attached. Cult followers believe the gadgets allow them to synchronize brain waves with Asahara...
Working against a tight deadline, at least 20,000 Japanese police fanned out today in a desperate search for cult leaders suspected in last month'snerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Coast guard patrols checked boats leaving the country, and police in Tokyo went on "emergency alert." The reason: in a book released last month,Aum Shinri Kyo cultleader Shoko Asahara predicted a disaster in Tokyo this weekend. Other police units concentrated on crowded neighborhoods in case cult members interpreted the prediction as a sign to do damage. At the same time, other cult leaders went on trial...
...month's nerve gas attackon the Tokyo subway system that killed 11 people. Tomomitsu Niimi, 31, was charged with kidnapping a 29-year-old woman who says he drugged her and kept her in a freight container for three months because she was trying to leave the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In a Moscow court yesterday, a teenager who once belonged to the cult said the sect had tested nerve gas on its Russian followers...