TOKYO, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Japanese police on Saturday served an additional arrest warrant on the suspect in an attack on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last month, alleging he illegally manufactured explosives.
Ryuji Kimura, who allegedly threw an explosive toward Kishida during a campaign event in western Japan's Wakayama City on April 15, was served the fresh warrant on suspicion of making about 530 grams of gunpowder around between November 2022 and April 15 this year without permission in violation of the gunpowder control law.
Wakayama prefectural police suspect that Kimura made explosives using gunpowder as metal cylinders and tools were seized from his home.
The 24-year-old was arrested on the scene on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business for allegedly throwing an explosive device at Kishida just before the prime minister was about to make a stump speech in Wakayama.
A policeman and an audience were slightly injured after the cylinder exploded while Kishida was unhurt.
