
MDN
SOKA, Saitama -- A police officer accidentally fired a revolver in a weapons storage room at a police station here, blasting a hole in a maintenance stand, law enforcers said.
Police said the 49-year-old senior officer accidentally fired the bullet into the wooden cleaning stand in the weapons storage room at Soka Police Station at about 8:50 a.m. on Wednesday. There were about five other people in the room at the time, but no one was injured.
Police said that the 49-year-old officer had been loading bullets into a revolver before going on duty at a police box. Holding the gun in his right hand, he reportedly went to open his holster with his left hand, but accidentally pulled the trigger instead.
"We will work to prevent a reoccurrence by thoroughly implementing correct handling procedures for handguns," said a police station official commenting on the accident.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20071227p2a00m0na004000c.html