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The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
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Aum Shinrikyo
Japanese cult and terrorist organization
Aleph , better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo , is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tokyo subway sarin attack
1995 terrorist attack by Aum Shinrikyo
The Tokyo subway sarin attack was a chemical domestic terrorist attack perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three lines of the Tokyo Metro during rush hour, killing 13…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)