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Members of a special chemical accident response team of the Tokyo Fire Department wearing gas masks and protective clothing enter Kasumigaseki Subway Station in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo on March 20th, 1995. At around 8.00am in the morning members of the Aum Shirikyo Doomsday Cult released poisonous Sarin Gas in five coordinated attacks on trains travelling through Kasumigaseki and Nagatacho stations. This resulted in the death of 13 passengers and staff and over 6,000 injuries and was Japan’s deadliest act of domestic terrorism. (Photo by Mainichi Newspapers/AFLO)
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Police confiscate explosives, chemical weapons and biological warfare agents during a raid on Aum’s facility – No. 7 Satyam – on the foot of Mt. Fuji in March 1995. On the morning of 20 March 1995, cult members released sarin in a coordinated attack on five trains in the Tokyo subway system, killing 13 commuters, seriously injuring 54 and affecting 980 more. Some estimates claim as many as 6,000 people were injured by the sarin. (Photo by Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/AFLO)
