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A6 WORLD NEWS
Thursday 22 sepTember 2022
Man sets himself on fire in apparent protest of Abe funeral

By MARI YAMAGUCHI He gave a speech Tuesday
Associated Press expressing disappointment
TOKYO (AP) — A man set over the Security Council’s
himself on fire near the failure to respond to the
Japanese prime minister’s Russian invasion of Ukraine
office in Tokyo on Wednes- because of Russia’s perma-
day in an apparent protest nent veto and called for
against the state funeral reforms that would allow
planned next week for for- the U.N. to better defend
mer leader Shinzo Abe, of- global peace and order.
ficials and media reports The planned state funer-
said. The man, believed al for Abe has become
to be in his 70s, sustained increasingly unpopular
burns on large parts of his among Japanese as more
body but was conscious details emerge about the
and told police that he set governing Liberal Demo-
himself on fire after pour- cratic Party’s and Abe’s
ing oil over himself, Kyodo links to the Unification
News agency reported. Church, which built close
A note was found with him ties with party lawmakers
that said, “Personally, I am over their shared interests
absolutely against” Abe’s in conservative causes. The
funeral, Kyodo reported. suspect in Abe’s assassina-
A Tokyo Fire Department tion reportedly believed his
official confirmed that a Police and firefighters inspect the scene where a man is reported to set himself on fire, near the mother’s large donations
man set himself afire on the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. to the church ruined his
street in Tokyo’s Kasumigas- Associated Press family.
eki government district and criminal intent. stronger military, and what Harris and other dignitar- The LDP has said nearly half
that he was alive when he Police also declined to critics call an autocratic ies. Police were also partly its lawmakers have ties to
was taken to a hospital by comment on a report that approach and cronyism. blamed for insufficient pro- the church, but party offi-
ambulance, but declined a police officer was caught More protests are expect- tection of Abe, who was cials have denied ties be-
to give further details, in- in the fire. ed in coming days, includ- shot to death by a gunman tween the party as an or-
cluding the man’s identity, The incident underscores a ing the day of the funeral who approached him from ganization and the church.
motive or condition, citing growing wave of protests next week. It also is an em- behind as he was giving an Kishida has said Abe de-
the sensitivity of what was a against the funeral for Abe, barrassment for police, who outdoor campaign speech serves the honor of a state
police matter. who was one of the most have stepped up security in July. funeral as Japan’s longest-
Police called it an attempt- divisive leaders in postwar for an event expected to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida serving post-World War II
ed suicide and refused Japanese politics because be attended by about is in New York for the annu- leader and for his diplomat-
to give further details be- of his revisionist view of war- 6,000 people, including al U.N. General Assembly ic and economic achieve-
cause the case involved no time history, support for a U.S. Vice President Kamala meeting of world leaders. ments. q
Inquests to be held into Canada stabbings and custody death

By ROB GILLIES a stabbing rampage in the 11 deaths on the the In- son died. Police previously a distance appeared to
Associated Press Canadian province but digenous reserve of James said Sanderson went into show Sanderson being
TORONTO (AP) — Saskatch- said it wasn’t due to blunt- Smith Cree Nation and in medical distress after he frisked.
ewan’s chief coroner said force trauma after being the nearby village of Wel- was arrested. Police have His death came two days
Wednesday an inquest will arrested. don. The other is to focus said CPR was attempted on after the body of his broth-
determine the cause of Chief Coroner Clive Weighill on the death of suspect him before an ambulance er, 30-year-old Damien
death of the suspect who said two public inquests will Myles Sanderson, who was arrived. Emergency medi- Sanderson, was found in
died in police custody after be held. One will focus on captured by police days cal personnel then took a field near the scene of
later after they ran his car him to a hospital, where he their rampage, which also
off the road. was pronounced dead.. wounded 18 people. Police
Weighill said no information But an official, who spoke are investigating whether
about how Sanderson died on condition of anonym- Myles Sanderson killed his
will be released before that ity, said Sanderson died of brother.
inquest, which could hap- self-inflicted injuries, without The stabbing rampage
pen in the spring or sum- giving any further details. raised questions of why
mer of next year. He said Officers forced Sanderson’s Myles Sanderson an ex-
jury members in the inquest vehicle off a road and into con with 59 convictions
will determine the cause of a ditch. He was detained and a long history of shock-
death. and a knife was found in- ing violence was out on
But Weighill later said at the side the stolen vehicle, po- the streets in the first place.
press conference that the lice said. Investigators have not giv-
preliminary result of the au- Video and photos from the en a motive for the blood-
topsy found no blunt force scene showed a white SUV shed.
trauma caused his death. off to the side of the road Weighill said the juries
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer speaks with a “We still need the toxicol- with police cars all around. would be made of sole-
member of media on a road outside in Rosthern, Saskatchewan
on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. ogy report,” he said. Air bags had deployed in ly of Indigenous people.
Associated Press Authorities have not said the SUV. Only one victim was not
how suspect Myles Sander- Some images taken from Indigenous.q