Last AUM fugitive arrested

Last AUM fugitive arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, leader of a group of bereaved families of victims in the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, gives a press conference in Tokyo on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive behind the attack. Her husband, an assistant station master at Kasumigaseki subway station in central Tokyo, was killed in the nerve gas attack along with 12 other people.

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