Fire in a residential area Several gang leaders were shot Injured Yamaguchi Iwakuni 16:49 on August 16
On the night of the 15th, a 52-year-old gang leader from the Kobe Yamaguchi group was shot in the stomach with a kind of pistol in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and is being treated at a hospital. Police are searching for the whereabouts of a person who appears to have fled the scene in an attempted murder case.
At about 9:20 pm on the 15th, a woman living in Sobazu-cho, Iwakuni City reported to the police that a man living together was shot by a gun.
When police and fire departments rushed, it was discovered that Junichi Maehara of Kiryukai, a gang of Kobe Yamaguchi group (52), was spilling blood on the street in front of his house.
According to the police and the fire department, he was shot at the belly with a kind of pistol and received medical treatment at the hospital, but he was conscious during transportation.
Police are searching for the whereabouts of a person who appears to have fled the scene in an attempted murder case.
The Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi has undergone a series of conflict cases with the division with the Yamaguchi-gumi, and the police are also investigating the relationship.
The site of the incident was a residential area several hundred meters south of Waki Station on the JR Sanyo Main Line.