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Four hours into a 1,000-officermanhunt, Japanese police last night arrested Shoko Asahara, the Japanese cult leader charged Monday with murder in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways. They also took 14 of his followers into custody. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at theAum Shinri Kyo cult'srural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch me." The Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting...
...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...
...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...
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...