Word: kunimatsu
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...second time in 10 days, a man in a white surgical mask terrified Japan. This time the target of the mysterious assailant was carefully picked: Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the country's 220,000-strong police force and the man in charge of investigating the deadly poison-gas attack in Tokyo's subway...
Japanese police today arrested two members of the cultAum Shinrikyofor illegal possession of explosive sodium without a required permit. The arrests came one day after National Police Agency head Takaji Kunimatsu was shot four times by a masked gunman who used a revolver and got away on a bicycle. The cult is suspected -- but denies involvement -- in last week'snerve gas attackon the Tokyo subway system that killed 10 people and sickened thousands. The shooting of Kunimatsu, now hospitalized in serious condition, prompted police to step up their hunt for cult leader Shoko Asahara. Police reportedly want to ask Asahara...
...telephoned threats of new attacks on police if they continue to investigate thecult Aum Shinrikyo, which is suspected of masterminding last week's nerve gas attack thatkilled 10 Tokyo subway passengers. Although the cult denies involvement with the gassing, or with the shooting of National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu, police have seized a cache of hazardous chemicals during raids on the sect's compounds. Kunimatsu was in serious condition after surgery requiring 21 pints of blood. The gunman wore a surgical mask and fled by bicycle. Police are trying to track down the cult's leader, Shoko Asahara, whose...