61.   Zeevi said that due to a technical mishap, the cyanide gas was not released.

62.   He admitted he had driven another member to a subway station, but denied intending to commit murder in a conspiracy with those who released the gas.

63.   He was also an exception among the five Aum members chosen to release the gas in subway trains.

64.   According to confessions by Aum cadres, more than six Aum followers had released the gas in that incident, Jiji said.

65.   After releasing the gas, Hirose said he returned to a car to administer an antidote.

66.   The plan was changed when the followers arrived in the city too late and the gas was instead released in an area where the judges lived.

67.   Police said the incident occurred after two chemicals became mixed together during swimming pool maintenance and chlorine gas was released.

68.   Sarin gas was also released in the central Japanese city of Matsumoto in June last year, killing seven people and leaving hundreds ill.

69.   Research findings published Tuesday cleared a controversial material used in fire-retardant mattresses, despite earlier claims it could release poisonous gases which were blamed for cot deaths.

70.   Six members allegedly released the gas with cult-invented spraying equipment mounted in a van.