Suspect may have used homemade pipe bomb in Kishida attack, investigators say

staff writer

Police are probing the possibility that the object used in the Saturday attack on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida could be a homemade pipe bomb, investigators said Sunday.

The revelation came as police raided the home of Ryuji Kimura, the 24-year-old suspect, in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, in the early hours of Sunday.

Conducting wires found on both ends of a second cylinder found at the scene, which resembled a steel pipe, led investigators to believe it was a pipe bomb, as such devices have gunpowder sealed inside a cylinder which is detonated by igniting a fuse, NHK reported.

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