GAS SICKENS 20 PEOPLE NEAR TOKYO.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

TOKYO Twenty people were sickened by an unidentified gas released outside a restaurant near Tokyo, police said Wednesday.

It was unknown whether the chemical was similar to those used in other recent gas attacks. Symptoms were similar to those in two incidents last week in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

The incident occurred at the Kinryu Chinese restaurant in Maebashi, 60 miles north …