Tokyo
CNN
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A police officer was discovered lifeless within the grounds of the Japanese Prime Minister’s official residence early Friday morning, in accordance with Tokyo Metropolitan Police, who’re investigating the incident as a doable suicide.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was not on the residence when a fellow police officer discovered the 25-year-old man within the West Gate guard station round 4:40 a.m., native time.
The deceased officer had been on guard obligation on the residence when the incident occurred, in accordance with police.
Japanese authorities have been on excessive alert after a latest assault on Kishida.
Final month, a person threw a suspected smoke bomb on the prime minister throughout a marketing campaign speech. Kishida was not harm within the incident however the capability of the suspect to get so near him with what gave the impression to be a hand-crafted weapon alarmed observers.
It got here lower than a 12 months after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot lifeless final July throughout a marketing campaign speech within the western metropolis of Nara.
