Members of the doomsday cult, which called itself Aum Shinrikyo, dropped plastic bags containing sarin liquid on the floors of five different trains and then pierced them. As the liquid evaporated ...

Sarin, a liquid dispersed as vapour, kills by disrupting the nervous system, causing fatal seizures and an agonising death. It has been used by terrorists before, in 1995, when an extremist cult ...

On that fateful day, Aum Shinrikyo members had used umbrellas with sharpened tips to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, releasing the deadly nerve gas into the packed commuter trains ...

It is a clear, tasteless and colourless liquid with a consistency something ... While the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult used sarin gas in its subway attack, it is believed to have used VX ...

Atsushi Sakahara, 54, narrowly survived the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo ... A newspaper was at his feet leaking out a transparent liquid. Sakahara could not focus his eyes and had strange ...

In 1995, an obscure Japanese religion launched a chemical attack on the Tokyo metro.