Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated today on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the nation and the world.
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Mourners flocked to the site where Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot. His body was being moved to Tokyo from Nara, where he was attacked while on the campaign trail.
NARA: Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech in western Japan, hospital officials said.