Tokyo subway gas attack
The court convicted Asahara of ordering his followers to release sarin on Tokyo subway trains on March 20, 1995, causing 12 deaths and seriously injuring 14.
Asahara and his henchmen huddled in a limousine two days beforehand to plot the nerve gas attack, reckoning this would thwart impending police raids, the court said.
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