Tokyo - A member of the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) doomsday cult who released sarin nerve gas on Tokyo subway trains testified yesterday that the sect did not realise the gas was so deadly.
Mr Yasuo Hayashi, one of five cult members who directly took part in the gas attack on March 20th, 1995, which killed 12 and sickened around 6,000, also said few cult members were aware the group was trying to produce the gas.
Speaking at the two-year-old trial of the cult leader, Mr Shoko Asahara, Mr Hayashi said if he and other members had known how deadly the gas was they would not have handled it so casually.
