11.   Newspaper reports say sect members have confessed to a similar nerve gas attack one year ago that killed seven people in the central city of Matsumoto.

12.   Several former members have confessed their role in the attack, and the former leader is on trial for murder.

13.   Senior members have confessed to police that they dumped rifle parts into several dams to prevent investigators from finding them, according to news reports.

14.   The gang members also confessed to killing two Iranian brothers, gunned down several months ago in front of their Karachi bakeries, the statement said.

15.   The raids came as press reports said two key cult members had confessed their roles in the attack.

16.   The report adds to a series of kidnappings and murders going back five years that cult members have reportedly confessed to police that they were involved in.

17.   Cult members have already confessed to kidnapping the clerk in February in a Tokyo street.

18.   Their bodies were found in three separate sites last month after an Aum member confessed to having killed and buried them.