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Aum Shinrikyo Tokyo Subway Attack

The doomsday cult released sarin nerve gas in crowded subway stations, killing 13 and injuring over 1,000, marking the first large-scale chemical weapon attack by a non-state actor.

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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 then found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year.

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