Before fatal shooting, Japan’s Abe was up close with the crowd
Nara, Japan Reuters Moments before he was fatally shot from behind on Friday, Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was doing what he’d done for decades: getting up close to the crowds and stumping for a local candidate. As is typical in Japan, where violent crime is rare and guns are scarce, security appeared to […]
Updated: Gunman assassinates Japan ex-PM Abe on campaign trail
Updated: 9:45am, 9th July, 2022 (AEST) Tokyo, Japan Reuters Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader of modern Japan, was gunned down on Friday while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country where guns are tightly controlled and political violence almost unthinkable. Abe, 67, was pronounced dead around five and a half hours […]