Japanese police arrested a 17 year-old high school for detonating a homemade bomb in a Tokyo video rental shop, a police official said Tuesday.
The boy told the police he had wanted to kill someone, said the official from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who declined to be named.
"The boy said 'I wanted to destroy a man, I didn't mind where'," the official told AFP.
The teenager, who had run away from home in Shimotsuga, Tochigi prefecture 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Tokyo on Sunday evening, was arrested on suspicion of violating the firearms control and gunpowder control laws," said the official.
The boy rolled the homemade device across the floor of the video shop in Shinjuku's Kabukicho entertainment district at around 8:20 PM Monday. It exploded, damaging a wall and the ceiling and leaving nails embedded in the wall, the official said.
No one was injured in the blast as an employee noticed the device had been thrown in and ran for cover, the official added.
"The boy made the explosive himself. He poured gunpowder and nails into a cup and sealed it with transparent tape," the official said.
"After lighting a fuse, he threw the explosive from outside the shop."
After the explosion, the boy turned himself in at a nearby police post, where he was found to be in possession of a second homemade bomb, a shotgun and bullets, the official added.
"The boy was not talkative, not outgoing," Jiji Press quoted sources as saying, adding the boy was among the toppers at his high school -- TOKYO (AFP)
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