According to sources close to the investigation, a handmade gun seized at the scene was approximately 40cm by 20cm.
Yamagami was apprehended at the scene of the shooting on Friday (July 8) and later arrested for the attempted murder of Mr Abe, 67.
The police believe that Yamagami was making guns at his home and are investigating how he 足球直播 obtained the parts.
TOKYO, July 10 (The Yomiuri Shimbun/ANN): The suspect in the fatal shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe has said that the handmade gun used in the attack “was designed to fire six pellets at once”, according to sources.
Nara prefectural police revealed on Sunday that Yamagami said he “test-fired (a homemade gun)”.
Several wooden boards with multiple holes were found in his car, which was seized by the prefectural police, and he said that he used them for test-firing a gun.
Based on video footage taken at the scene, Yamagami fired from a position 6 to 7m behind Abe.
The police searched Yamagami’s home in Nara City on Friday and found several handmade guns similar in construction to the one used in the attack.
The location of the test-firing is unknown, and the prefectural police are investigating the details.
Each of the guns had several metal tubes bound together with tape, and one large gun had nine tubes bound together. They were also connected to an electrical cord that was believed to be used for ignition.
The prefectural police beli 英超直播 eve the holes were from stray pellets and, considering the distance, the pellets were emitted with great force.
When the prefectural police examined a campaign vehicle along a road about 20m away from Abe, they found multiple pellet holes in the signboard area.
The shooting shocked a country where guns are tightly controlled.
The Nara prefect 英超 ural police believe that Yamagami made several prototypes and selected the most lethal one to commit the crime.
“I bought gunpowder on the Internet, got empty shell casings and filled them myself,” Yamagami has stated. He also said that he “first tried to make a bomb, but it didn’t work out, so I decided to make guns”.
On Sunday morning, the prefectural police sent Yamagami to the public prosecutor’s office on a murder charge. – The The Yomiuri Shimbun/ANN
Yamagami has told the authorities that two metal tubes were bound together and secured with wooden boards and tape. The tubes contained a capsule that could hold up to six pellets, which would be discharged out of each tube in a single shot.
The former prime minister was shot in the western city of Nara at 11.30am on Friday (10.30am in Singapore) and died in hospital later.
Several similar guns were found at the home of the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, an unemployed former member of the Maritime Self-Defence Force.
Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, had been campaigning for a Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the run-up to Sunday’s Upper House election. He was making a speech near Yamato-Saidaiji train station when he was shot from behind.
Yamagami was apprehended at the scene of the shooting on Friday (July 8) and later arrested for the attempted murder of Mr Abe, 67.
The police believe that Yamagami was making guns at his home and are investigating how he 足球直播 obtained the parts.
TOKYO, July 10 (The Yomiuri Shimbun/ANN): The suspect in the fatal shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe has said that the handmade gun used in the attack “was designed to fire six pellets at once”, according to sources.
Nara prefectural police revealed on Sunday that Yamagami said he “test-fired (a homemade gun)”.
Several wooden boards with multiple holes were found in his car, which was seized by the prefectural police, and he said that he used them for test-firing a gun.
Based on video footage taken at the scene, Yamagami fired from a position 6 to 7m behind Abe.
The police searched Yamagami’s home in Nara City on Friday and found several handmade guns similar in construction to the one used in the attack.
The location of the test-firing is unknown, and the prefectural police are investigating the details.
Each of the guns had several metal tubes bound together with tape, and one large gun had nine tubes bound together. They were also connected to an electrical cord that was believed to be used for ignition.
The prefectural police beli 英超直播 eve the holes were from stray pellets and, considering the distance, the pellets were emitted with great force.
When the prefectural police examined a campaign vehicle along a road about 20m away from Abe, they found multiple pellet holes in the signboard area.
The shooting shocked a country where guns are tightly controlled.
The Nara prefect 英超 ural police believe that Yamagami made several prototypes and selected the most lethal one to commit the crime.
“I bought gunpowder on the Internet, got empty shell casings and filled them myself,” Yamagami has stated. He also said that he “first tried to make a bomb, but it didn’t work out, so I decided to make guns”.
On Sunday morning, the prefectural police sent Yamagami to the public prosecutor’s office on a murder charge. – The The Yomiuri Shimbun/ANN
Yamagami has told the authorities that two metal tubes were bound together and secured with wooden boards and tape. The tubes contained a capsule that could hold up to six pellets, which would be discharged out of each tube in a single shot.
The former prime minister was shot in the western city of Nara at 11.30am on Friday (10.30am in Singapore) and died in hospital later.
Several similar guns were found at the home of the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, an unemployed former member of the Maritime Self-Defence Force.
Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, had been campaigning for a Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the run-up to Sunday’s Upper House election. He was making a speech near Yamato-Saidaiji train station when he was shot from behind.
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