Explosions near Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s speech

An explosion was heard in the Japanese city of Wakayama near the site of the speech of the country’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, informs broadcasting company NHK.

The publication clarifies that the explosion was heard before Kishida’s speech in support of the by-election to the Wakayama House of Representatives during a visit to the fishing port of Saigasaki. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, the Prime Minister was evacuated.

According to eyewitnesses, an unknown man threw a cylindrical object that exploded. The police detained the suspect: it turned out to be 24-year-old Ryuji Kimura. According to NHK, he has not yet testified.

With reference to officials, the publication reports that Kishida canceled the speech at the port and went to the Wakayama Prefectural Police Headquarters. But, as planned, he will give a speech near the city railway station.

“I apologize for the inconvenience caused and the inconvenience caused by the incident,” Kishida commented on the incident (quote according to RIA Novosti).

July 8, 2022 after an armed assassination attempt in the city of Nara died Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The attack took place in the morning of the same day in front of the Yamato-Saidaiji Station of the Kintetsu Railway in Nara City. There, Abe spoke to support a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) running for the upper house of parliament two days before the parliamentary elections. In the second minute of his speech, Abe received a gunshot wound to the neck and left side of the chest – according to Kyodo, at least two shots were fired. After the second shot, NHK reports citing a witness, the former prime minister lost consciousness. Abe suffered internal bleeding. He passed away at Nara Medical University Hospital.