Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says the former leader is in a 'critical condition' after he was shot while campaigning today. 9News
prime minister Shinzo Abe is in a "severe condition" after he was shot in a "dastardly attack" while he was campaigning on a street in Nara, in the country's west.
Kishida, who belongs to the same political party as Abe, has returned to Tokyo from a campaign trip since the shooting.Japan's public broadcaster NHK aired footage showing Abe collapsed on the street, with several security guards running toward him. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that police arrested an alleged male attacker at the scene.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who belongs to the same political party as Abe, is on his way to Tokyo on a helicopter from his own campaign destination of Yamagata, in northern Japan.Japan is one of the world's safest countries, having some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.Forensic investigators at the scene of the attack.The longest-serving prime minister in Japan's history, Abe led the country from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
But Abe made enemies too by forcing his defence goals and other contentious issues through parliament, despite strong public opposition.Abe is a political blue blood who was groomed to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi.
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