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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after smoke bomb thrown during stump speech
Japan PM Kishida unhurt after smoke bomb thrown during stump speech
Kyodo News
Published Apr 15, 2023 11:08 AM PHT
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Updated Apr 15, 2023 02:38 PM PHT
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, May 9, 2022. Jiji Press Japan/EPA-EFE File
TOKYO (2nd UPDATE) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was unhurt after a man threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb during his visit to western Japan for a stump speech on Saturday.
Kishida immediately left by car after the incident, which took place as he was talking with a candidate of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party just before he was due to make a speech in a fishing port in the city of Wakayama. The man was arrested at the scene.
The suspected smoke bomb was thrown at around 11:25 a.m. from among a crowd of several hundred people. A loud explosion was heard.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot in July last year during a stump speech in the city of Nara before the House of Councillors election, leading the National Police Agency to bolster its security of VIPs.
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The latest incident took place during official campaigning for a House of Representatives by-election in the Wakayama No. 1 district.
Kishida's stump speeches in the afternoon, including in Wakayama, will go ahead as planned, according to an LDP member and a government source.
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