TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo subway officials commemorated the 17th anniversary of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attack Tuesday at Kasumigaseki Station.Twenty-four Tokyo Metro Co. employees observed a moment of silence at the station, one of the Tokyo subway stations where members of the cult released the deadly gas on March 20, 1995, killing 13 people and sickening over 6,000 others.
A stand was set up for commemorators including families of the victims to offer flowers at Kasumigaseki and five other stations.
A 46-year-old man who was injured in the subway attacks said, ''I have come to the commemoration every year hoping that memories don't fade.''
A total of 13 people including Chizuo Matsumoto, the cult's founder more commonly known as Shoko Asahara, have been on death row for masterminding the gas attacks and a series of other crimes. Read More
