Tokyo, Japan – Several members of a cult that carried out a deadly 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway were executed Thursday, Japanese media said, weeks after the group’s leader was hanged.
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Japanese authorities on Monday cremated Shoko Asahara, the executed head of the Aum Shinrikyo cult behind a deadly 1995 sarin attack, a lawyer for his daughter said.
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Read moreTOKYO (Reuters) – Japan executed on Friday the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 13 people and shattering the country’s myth of public safety. The Aum Shinrikyo, or Aum Supreme Truth cult, which mixed […]
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