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| Japan executes ex-leader of cult behind subway sarin attack that killed 13 – report | Japan executes ex-leader of cult behind subway sarin attack that killed 13 – report |
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| The former leader of Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult that killed 13 people in a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, has been executed, Japanese media report. He is the first of 13 people set to be hanged for the attack. | The former leader of Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult that killed 13 people in a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, has been executed, Japanese media report. He is the first of 13 people set to be hanged for the attack. |
| Shoko Asahara, 63, was executed on Friday, Mainichi Shimbun reported, citing government sources. | |
| Asahara, who was born Chizuo Matsumoto, was sentenced to death for the March 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway, which killed 13 and injured more than 6,200 people. | |
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