Japan marks tragic subway attack


Gone but not forgotten: Takahashi, the wife of a subway worker killed in the March 20, 1995 sarin gas attack, laying flowers on the stand set up at Kasumigaseki subway station in Tokyo. — AP

THE country marked the 30th anniversary of the sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway that killed more than a dozen people and injured more than 5,800.

A small group of Tokyo subway workers yesterday observed a moment of silence at an annual ceremony at Kasumigaseki station in the heart of the capital’s government district, one of several areas targeted in the 1995 attack.

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