(2)Police search Pana Wave facilities, vans

(2)Police search Pana Wave facilities, vans

FUKUI, Japan - Police officers check the facilities and vehicles used by the doomsday organization Pana Wave Laboratory in Fukui on May 14. Police searched 12 facilities in Tokyo, Fukui, Yamanashi, Okayama and Fukuoka prefectures as well as 17 white vehicles that recently drew great media attention as they moved in a slow-moving caravan through mountainous areas of rural Japan. (Kyodo)

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