AUM cult founder Asahara executed with followers

AUM cult founder Asahara executed with followers

Photo taken on July 6, 2018, shows a passerby in Tokyo with a large screen in the back showing the news of the execution of AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara the same day. Asahara, whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto, was hanged for masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes in the 1980s and 1990s that resulted in the deaths of 29 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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