During rush hour on the morning of March 20, 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult orchestrated a coordinated sarin gas attack on subway trains in Tokyo, Japan. A dozen people were killed and thousands of others were injured. After the attack, the Japanese government shut down the cult and arrested many of its members. However, up until recently, there were still two people connected with the sarin gas attack that had escaped arrest. This week, 17 years after the attack, one of them was arrested.
Naoko Kikuchi, the woman believed to have helped make the sarin gas, was arrested at her home in Sagamihara, just outside of Tokyo. Tired of being on the run, reports say that Kikuchi was relieved to be captured.
For more about this story, including before and after pictures of Kikuchi, check out this Los Angeles Times article.
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