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The sarin attack occurred in a quiet residential area in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.In carrying out the attack, Aum Shinrikyo had two goals; to attack three judges who were expected to rule against the cult in a lawsuit concerning a real estate dispute, and to test the efficacy of its sarin—which the cult was manufacturing at one of its facilities—as a weapon of mass murder. [4]
Later forensic analysis found that the sarin utilised in the attack was roughly half as pure as that used in the Matsumoto attack. Attack On Monday, 20 March 1995, five members of Aum Shinrikyo launched a chemical attack on the Tokyo subway (on lines that are part of the present-day Tokyo Metro ), one of the world's busiest commuter transport ...
Yoshiyuki Kōno (河野 義行, born February 3, 1950) is a survivor of the Matsumoto incident, a sarin attack that killed eight people and sickened many more in Matsumoto, Japan, on the evening of June 27, 1994 and the following morning.
By Elaine Lies and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (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 ...
The sarin gas dropped by Lin Tainan eventually killed eight people and injured thousands more. He was the one who caused the most severe casualties among the five attackers in the Tokyo subway sarin gas incident. [2] [5] [9] In addition, Lin Tainan is also suspected of manufacturing a sarin gas spraying truck for the 1994 Matsumoto sarin attack ...
The attack resulted in a large number of complaints about bad odors but no infections. [27] At the end of 1993, the cult started secretly manufacturing the nerve agent sarin and, later, VX. Aum tested its sarin on sheep at Banjawarn Station, a remote pastoral property in Western Australia, killing 29 sheep. Both sarin and VX were then used in ...
‘It reminded me of the Tokyo subway sarin attack,’ says eyewitness referring to 1995 attack that killed 14 and injured over 6,000 At least four injured from chemical leak on Japan bullet train ...
Matsumoto incident: Matsumoto: Aum Shinrikyo 8 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult released sarin gas near the homes of several judges who presiding over legal cases involving the cult. 500+ injured [22] 20 March 1995: Tokyo subway sarin attack: Tokyo Aum Shinrikyo 13 6,252 injured 25 July 1998: Wakayama arsenic poison case