Aum Shinrikyo cult fugitive surrenders to Japan police
A former member of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult has turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run, one of three remaining fugitives.
Japanese police said Makoto Hirata gave himself up at a police station in Tokyo just before midnight on New Year's Eve.
He had been in hiding since the cult's sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, which killed 13 people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16377178
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件 Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken?), was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of Aum Shinrikyo on March 20, 1995.
In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo Metro, killing thirteen people, severely injuring fifty and causing temporary vision problems for nearly a thousand others. The attack was directed against trains passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō, home to the Japanese government. It is the most serious attack to occur in Japan since the end of World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway
