TOKYO: The bomb explosion at a park in the city of Utsunomiya some 100 kilometers north of Tokyo on Sunday might have been a bizarre suicide, police and reports said.

A festival was under way at the park when a 72-year-old former member of Japan’s Self Defense Forces apparently set off an explosive device that killed him and left three people injured including two seriously, Kyodo News reported, citing police.

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