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Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot, feared dead

by Agency Report
July 8, 2022
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Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot, feared dead

This picture taken on July 6, 2022 shows former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) meeting with supporters after he delivered a campaign speech for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate Keiichiro Asao for the Upper House election in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo. - Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot at a campaign event on July 8, 2022, a government spokesman said, as local media reported the nation's longest-serving premier was showing no vital signs. (Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP)

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Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was showing no vital signs after apparently being shot at a campaign event in the Nara region on Friday, local media reported.

The former leader had been delivering a stump speech at an event ahead of Sunday’s upper house elections when the apparent sound of gunshots were heard, national broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo news agency said.

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Abe, 67, collapsed and was bleeding from the neck, a source from his ruling Liberal Democratic Party told the Jiji news agency.

Neither the LDP nor local police were able to immediately confirm the reports.

NHK and Kyodo both reported Abe was taken to hospital and appeared to be in cardo-respiratory arrest — a term used in Japan indicating no vital signs, and generally preceding a formal certification of death by a coroner.

Several media outlets reported that he appeared to have been shot from behind, possibly with a shotgun. NHK reported that a man had been apprehended, though there were no immediate further details.

Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, held office in 2006 for one year and again from 2012 to 2020.

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