{"id":9235,"date":"2022-07-08T14:07:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2022-07-08T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:07:19","slug":"former-japan-pm-abe-dead-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/former-japan-pm-abe-dead-after-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Japan PM Abe dead after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Japan PM Abe dead after shooting.\u00a0 Japan\u2019s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been confirmed dead after he was shot at a campaign event on Friday, public broadcaster NHK and Jiji news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to a senior LDP (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liberal Democratic Party<\/a>) official, former prime minister Abe died at a hospital in Kashihara city, Nara region, where he was receiving medical treatment. He was 67,&#8221; NHK said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, Abe was shot at a campaign event, a government spokesman said, as local media reported the ex-leader was showing no vital signs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Former prime minister Abe was shot at around 11:30 am,&#8221; in the country\u2019s western region of Nara, chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One man, believed to be the shooter, has been taken into custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever the reason, such a barbaric act can never be tolerated, and we strongly condemn it,&#8221; Matsuno added.<\/p>\n<p>Local media including national broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo news agency said the former prime minister appeared to be in &#8220;cardiorespiratory arrest&#8221;, a term often used in Japan before a feared death can be officially confirmed by a coroner.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on a man who may be Japan\u2019s best-known politician comes despite the country\u2019s famously low levels of violent crime and tough gun laws.<\/p>\n<p>Abe had been delivering a stump speech at an event ahead of Sunday\u2019s upper house elections, with security present, but spectators were able to approach him fairly easily.<\/p>\n<p>Footage broadcast by NHK showed him standing on a stage when a loud blast is heard and smoke is visible in the air.<\/p>\n<p>A man is then seen being tackled to the ground by security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was giving a speech and a man came from behind,&#8221; a young woman at the scene told NHK.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/uk-us-japan-canada-to-ban-russia-gold-imports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK, US, Japan &amp; Canada to ban Russia gold imports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first shot sounded like a toy. He didn\u2019t fall and there was a large bang. The second shot was more visible, you could see the spark and smoke,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the second shot, people surrounded him and gave him cardiac massage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abe, 67, collapsed and was bleeding from the neck, a source from his ruling Liberal Democratic Party told the Jiji news agency.<\/p>\n<p>An official at Nara Medical University hospital told AFP: &#8220;What we can share now is that his transfer here has been completed,&#8221; declining to comment on the former leader\u2019s status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Japan PM Abe dead after shooting.\u00a0 Japan\u2019s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been confirmed dead after he was shot at a campaign event on Friday, public broadcaster NHK and Jiji news agency reported. &#8220;According to a senior LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) official, former prime minister Abe died at a hospital in Kashihara city, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2197],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}