The suspect in the Saturday attack on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was sent to prosecutors on Monday morning as police probed the possibility that he used a homemade pipe bomb.
Ryuji Kimura, a 24-year-old man from Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, was arrested on Saturday after allegedly throwing one of two cylindrical objects in his possession at the prime minister, with the device landing a meter from where Kishida stood during an event in the city of Wakayama.
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