Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot during speech

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe shot in the chest during a campaign on Friday (8 July 2022) morning.

Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech in western Japan. Shinzo Abe was in Nara campaigning ahead of Sunday's election for the parliament's upper house and was giving a speech when people heard a gunshot.

Abe was shot in the chest and was taken to hospital. Local police captured a man and are questioning him.

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