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  • April 15, 2023
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He Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida evacuated. after registering an explosion while visiting the port of Saikazaki, Wakayama City (western Japan) and was not injured. The explosion occurred

Video |  Japanese Prime Minister evacuated after bomb blast

He Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida evacuated. after registering an explosion while visiting the port of Saikazaki, Wakayama City (western Japan) and was not injured.

The explosion occurred around 11:30 local time (2:30 GMT on Saturday) as the president was preparing to give speechfor which he was immediately withdrawn from the area by special services.

Authorities They arrested the alleged person in charge of the launch what several eyewitnesses described as a cylindrical object that exploded like a smoke bomb, local media reported.

Kishida was giving a speech in support of his party’s candidate.

The President was at the port to give a speech in support of the campaign of one of his party’s candidates, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (PLD), when a suspect dropped a suspected explosive in the area.

In pictures taken nhk At the scene, a group of five police officers can be seen immobilizing the alleged perpetrator on the ground, in addition to the rest people are running screaming from the area.

The president’s agenda, which may have been affected by what happened, included a speech in Wakayama at 11:40 a.m. (2:40 GMT Saturday), as well as another speech in the morning in front of a train station in that city, and a final one in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, at 16:30 (7:30 GMT).

Political speeches on the street are not uncommon in Japan, a country with a very low crime rate, although last July Former Japanese President Shinzo Abe has died after being shot in the back. homemade firearms during a campaign speech in the city of Nara. (EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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