World leaders past and present expressed shock and sadness at the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated Friday while campaigning at a political rally.
Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe was killed on Friday after he was fatally shot at during an election campaign. Despite having strict gun laws, there have been several attacks on key figures, which includes politicians, in Japan in the past several years. Here’s a timeline.
Japan s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation s most influential figures, was on Friday killed after he was fatally shot at during an election campaign in western Japan s Nara city.
The fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign event Friday has shocked a country that has some of the world's strictest laws on gun ownership, with political assassinations rare in the last few decades.