Japan ex-Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, shot, feared dead

Japan Former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe was in heart failure After apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in Western Japan, NHK Public Television said Friday.

The Broadcaster aired footage showing Abe collapsed on the street, with several security guards running toward him. Abe was holding his chest when he collapsed, with his shirt smeared with blood. NHK says Abe was rushed to a hospital.

Witness reported hearing gunshots in the apparent attack in Nara. He was standing while making an Election campaign speech ahead of Sunday’s Election for the Parliament’s Upper House.

Police arrested a male suspects of attempted murder NHK, said.

MailOnline is reporting that Abe is feared dead after the attack, as he was hit in the chest.

Abe, 67, who is Japan’s longest-serving PM having held office twice from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020, was shot around 11.30am local time in the city of Nara – near Osaka – while speaking outside the train station.

Firefighters who rushed to the scene described him as having ‘no vital signs’, while medics said he was ‘in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest’.

That phrase is commonly used in Japan when someone has died but doctors have not officially pronounced it.

Suspected shooter Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a military veteran, was tackled by security and arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder – with police also confiscating what appeared to be a homemade firearm.

Witnesses reported hearing two shots while Abe was making a campaign speech ahead of Sunday’s election for the parliament’s upper house.

He then collapsed holding his chest, with his shirt smeared with blood.

It was a stunning development in a country with famously low levels of violent crime and tough gun laws, involving Japan’s best-known politician.

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