Japan’s former prime minister is fighting for his life after he was shot while delivering a speech in the western city of Nara on Friday, a government official and local media reported, the NY Post reports. Abe, 67, collapsed and was bleeding from the neck after he was attacked from behind during a stump speech at about 11:30 a.m. ahead of Sunday’s upper house elections, national broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo news agency said.
The former prime minister was hospitalized and appeared to be in cardiac arrest, local media reported.
A man in his 40s was taken into custody on attempted murder charges and police recovered a gun from him, NHK reported.
“He was giving a speech and a man came from behind,” a young woman at the scene told NHK. “The first shot sounded like a toy. He didn’t fall and there was a large bang. The second shot was more visible, you could see the spark and smoke,” the woman said.
Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, held office in 2006 for one year and again from 2012 to 2020.
Crime in Japan??? How could that be? Trump wasn’t the illegitimate president there! And Brandon Robbinette certainly can’t be the cause! How can this happen in Japan?
DEAD!
Fake staged event you can clearly see if you watch the video hes not dead prob needs to go into hiding
What are you insinuating?
I think you’re right, Avi, being that he was so anti the CCP.