Page 68 - Nihon News Today

By Ju-min Park and Daniel Leussink

A top police official has acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fire his gun into former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was addressing a campaign rally. Abe was shot in the western city of Nara on Friday and airlifted to a hospital but died of blood loss. Police arrested the attacker, a former member of Japan’s navy, at the scene. Police confiscated his homemade gun and several others were later found at his apartment. The attacker told investigators he...

Video images from the scene showed the assailant fired at Abe with a device that had a pistol grip and seemingly two pipes covered in black electrical tape.

Analysts say DIY gun used to kill Japans Abe was simple to make

An assassin shot Shinzo Abe on Friday while the former Japanese prime minister was addressing a campaign rally.

The police chief of the Nara prefecture where former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed admitted security lapses that allowed the assassin to get close enough to fire the deadly shots from a homemade gun, saying he feels a "grave sense of responsibility."

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election shocked Japan and raised questions over whether security for the former prime minister was adequate.

Police have seized DIY weapons found at the home of Japanese ex-PM Shinzo Abes assassin Tetsuya Yamagami including a nine-barrel shotgun (pictured) controlled by a phone.

A top police official has acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fire his gun into former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was addressing a campaign rally.

Nara prefectural police chief Tomoaki Onizuka said Abes assassination was his greatest regret in a 27-year career.