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...major Japanese daily reports thatShoko Asahara, leader of theAum Shinrikyo cult, has been found by police and is under constant surveillance. Police have been searching the cult's compound for the past week in an effort to find Asahara, who had been missing since theMar. 20 Tokyo subway gas attack. The Sankei Shimbun is the only Japanese paper to report the story, with other Japanese media continuing to say authorities are still looking for Asahara...
Hundreds of police searched the compound of theAum Shinrikyo cultin an effort to find a secret door that could lead them to the cult's leader. Shoko Asahara has been in hiding since theMarch 20 gas attack on Tokyo's subwaysthat killed 12. Police redoubled their efforts after Wednesday's surprise capture of two of the cult's top scientists in a secret room beneath a dormitory. They hope to find Asahara in a similar hiding place but have so far found nothing...
...leader of the cult suspected in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackin the Tokyo subways died from knife wounds he received yesterday. Hideo Murai, thehead of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's chemical research division, had appeared on Japanese television almost daily since thegas attacksto deny that the cult had anything to do with them. He was attacked yesterday by Hiroyuki Jo, a member of a right-wing group who told police that he was seeking revenge for the subway attack...
...hospitals stocked up on nerve gas antidotes while some schools and shopping centers shut down early for the weekend, as police authorities stepped up the largest peacetime security operation in Japanese history. Tokyo is bracing for a disaster this weekend, as 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...
...inlast 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...