Police seized powder believed to be used in making explosives at the home of a man accused of throwing an explosive device near Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who was campaigning for a Lower House by-election.
Investigators suspect that the silver-colored cylindrical device, which exploded about 50 seconds later at the Saikazaki fishing port in Wakayama on April 15, was a homemade pipe bomb.
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Source: The Asahi Shimbun