Chemicals Found in Tokyo Stations
Gas attacks on a rail station and a subway in Tokyo were foiled Tuesday night when cleaners found homemade devices with timers before they were set to go off, news reports said.
No one was hurt, but Kyodo News Service said the chemicals found in a device at the Kayabacho subway station could have killed about 8,800 people if they were combined to form a lethal gas.
A police official said a cleaning woman found the device in a women’s restroom, put it in her trash bag and reported to police. A timer was set to trigger the cutting open and mixing of two vinyl bags of chemicals, one containing cyanide, to form a lethal gas.
About six hours later, police said an employee reported finding a vinyl bag containing liquid, possibly sulfuric acid, along with a timer in a restroom at Shinjuku, a major Tokyo railway station.
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