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search for cult connections (02/04/2000)
Police yesterday raided six facilities of the doomsday cult behind
the 1995 fatal gassing on the Tokyo subways. The officers were looking
for clues into the kidnapping of the son of the cult's former leader.
Police were searching for three suspects, including two daughters
of former Aum Shinri Kyo cult guru Shoko Asahara, on suspicion of
kidnapping Asahara's seven-year-old son last month.
At dawn on January 21, the suspects allegedly broke into the house
where Asahara's son was living in Asahimura and took the boy away.
Police found the boy unharmed last month in a lodging house in
the resort town of Hakone, 90 kilometres southwest of Tokyo.
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