TOKYO, July 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Japanese police arrested three former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult members and a former police officer Wednesday morning over the 1995 shooting of then Japan National Police Agency (NPA) chief Takaji Kunimatsu.

    According to the NPA, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department believed there is yet another suspect responsible for executing the crime.

    Kunimatsu was shot by a gunman in front of his residence in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward on March 30, 1995, and severely wounded after receiving three bullets to the abdomen.

    On Tuesday, another senior AUM member Naruhito Noda was arrested over the alleged involvement of AUM members in unlicensed sales of medicines, and police raided some 50 related locations in Tokyo.

    So far, a dozen of senior members of the doomsday cult, including founder Shoko Asahara, have been convicted or are standing trial for the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo subway system and other crimes. The cult has renamed itself Aleph. Enditem