Evidence of Sarin Found in Cult Lab
Japanese police found evidence of sarin gas at a building owned by a religious cult Friday, in a major breakthrough in the investigation of nerve gas attacks on Tokyo’s subways last month, media reports said.
Investigators found a chemical that can only be created when sarin decomposes in a laboratory belonging to the Aum Supreme Truth sect, NHK television and the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said.
NHK said the find proved that sarin had been present at the facility. Police declined comment on the reports.
Sarin is the nerve gas police say was used in attacks on Tokyo subways on March 20 in which 11 people were killed and about 5,500 were injured.
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