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Explosion at a port where Japanese PM Kishida scheduled to speak

Newsman: An explosion was heard where the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was due to give a stump speech. Authorities evacuated Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to safety after the explosion was heard. One police officer was slightly injured, and a suspect was detained for allegedly throwing an explosive during the campaign event.

 Kishida was in the city of Wakayama, stumping for a candidate in upcoming by-elections. Public broadcaster NHK reported that an object was thrown and there was an explosion and white smoke. NHK reported that the detained suspect was a 24-year-old man from the city of Kawanishi.

NHK video shows half a dozen security personnel pinning a person wearing olive-colored pants and sneakers to the ground, before dragging him away.

Kishida later went ahead with his planned speech, NHK reported. Japan updated VIP protection procedures following

the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July.

A police report following Abe’s shooting concluded that with better planning and on-site security, Abe’s killing could have been prevented.

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