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It was only last July that a man with a homemade gun murdered Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as Abe was giving a speech at a campaign rally. Today, something similar happened as current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was about to give a campaign speech in western Japan not far from where Abe was killed.
TV footage shows Kishida standing with his back to the crowd. His security detail suddenly points to the ground near him, and the prime minister whips around, looking alarmed. The camera quickly turns to the crowd just as several people, including uniformed and plainclothes police officers, converge on a young man wearing a white surgical mask and holding what appears to be another device, a long silver tube…
It wasn’t immediately clear what the explosive device was or how many the suspect had, but some reports said it was a smoke or pipe bomb, possibly with a delayed fuse…
Saturday’s attack comes ahead of nationwide local elections, including several by-elections for vacated parliamentary seats, with voting scheduled for April 23.
Ultimately no one was hurt but the scene was a lot scarier than it sounds from the description. This clip shows the bomb being hurled toward Kishida, who has his back turned, followed by a scramble to get him away from the area. The thing that looks like an artist’s portfolio is actually a ballistic shield used to protect someone from bullets or shrapnel.
岸田総理の1mそばに爆弾が投げ込まれてる。。。
真っ先に爆弾に気付いたSPの対応は良かった。
2秒で盾を展開して3秒で総理を避難させてる。
安倍総理のときもこれができていれば。。。pic.
