Investigators now believe the explosive thrown at Mr Kishida was homemade. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO – Suspected gunpowder has been found at the home of a man accused of throwing an explosive at Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a campaign event, local media said on Monday.in which a suspected pipe bomb was tossed towards him at a port in western Japan’s Wakayama, shortly before he gave a speech.
They are analysing Kimura’s phone and computer for clues, but he has so far refused to give any motive for the attack. NHK aired footage showing him sitting in the rear seat of a police car looking straight ahead as he was moved.the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe,And it happened as climate and energy ministers from the Group of Seven countries met in the northern city of Sapporo, and a day before the bloc’s foreign ministers arrived in the resort town of Karuizawa for talks.
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