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| Above, former PM Shinzo Abe after the shooting. Kyodo News photo. |
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and critically wounded while giving a campaign speech in Nara. Some reports say he is dead.
According to The Japan Times:
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — one of the most consequential leaders in Japan’s postwar history — was shot in the chest while he was making a stump speech on a street in the city of Nara on Friday in what appears to be an assassination attempt. He is reportedly in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has described Abe as being in a “serious condition,” and a Nara official has said that the former prime minister is no longer showing vital signs.
Japan has some of the world's most strict gun laws, but things like this do still happen. This only shows how useless gun control actually is. It was reported that the gun used was homemade. Back in 2007, the mayor of Nagasaki was shot and killed at his campaign headquarters. It happened within days of my arrival in Nagasaki.
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UPDATE:
Business Insider reported:
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot on the campaign trail. He was 67.
He was shot around 11:30 a.m. local time Friday while giving a speech in Nara, a western Japanese city 35 kilometers south of Kyoto.
He was immediately airlifted to Nara Medical University Hospital without vital signs of life, hospital officials told a Friday news conference. Abe had lost a lot of blood, and medics attempted to resuscitate him and give him blood transfusions, the officials said, per The Washington Post.
He was confirmed dead at 5:03 p.m., the hospital said.
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