Breaking: Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot: reports | ErykBagshaw
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has been rushed to hospital after collapsing during a speech in Nara.Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.Kyodo News reported just after 11am, Tokyo time, that Abe was unconscious and unresponsive. Local station MBS also reported that Abe was in a state of cardiac arrest. NHK said he was showing no vital signs.
Local police have taken a man into custody. Witnesses told NHK that they heard two shots and saw a large gun at the scene. “I heard one shot and another shot,” said one witness. “Then I saw the suspect with something larger than a handgun the Secret Service jumped on top of him. It was shocking.” Abe, the most influential Japanese politician of his generation and Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, retired in 2020 but remained a significant powerbroker in Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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